Book: Four Thousand Weeks

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 possibility shock (the realization of how different things could be).