(★★★★) This is a temporary situation.

(★★★★) Nice is... Nice enough.

(★★★★) I guess I gravitate to early mornings and nature, wherever I am.

(★★★★) This is a bit of a splurge; I am aware. I’m tired of changing / wasting batteries.

Four stars. ( ★★★★ ) Solid takeaways, but could have been shorter. There’s some interesting stuff in Four Thousand Weeks , around a resonant premise that living for a future state or version of oneself is a good way to waste a life. But, like many books of this genre it could have been a podcast or an article. Oliver Burkeman coins two great phrases: cosmic insignificance therapy (experiences that lighten the burdens of life by reminding us how little we matter) and poss