"The average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short... Assuming you live to be 80, you’ll have had about 4,000 weeks...And so distraction truly matters – because your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attention...the distracted person isn’t really choosing at all. Their attention has been commandeered by forces that don’t have their highest interests at heart..."

#4000weeks

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/07/on-earth-4000-weeks-so-why-lose-time-online-distraction-oliver-burkeman

I'm so excited! I actually got the next module loaded before noon and am going to have a normal weekend off for the first time this semester. (Up to now, I've only had two Saturdays.)

#AdjunctLife is not sustainable.

This is not to say that I'm caught up and can "afford" to have it off, but I have been reading #4000Weeks and basically just made a values-based command decision.

I ain't workin'.

Trying out a new "hack" for curbing being on my phone too much.

Put it in grayscale.

I've been doing this the past few days after reading #4000Weeks and I have to say I love it.

I can still do everything I need to do, but it doesn't have the same allure. And as a benefit, by contrast, the real world looks even more vibrant.

Man this book is REALLY good and dropping uncomfortable truth bombs left and right.

If you have a feeling that hustle culture isn't serving you, this is a great read (or listen)

#4000Weeks

If you’re like me, always busy structuring yourself, while in reality you are just perfectly procrastinating things, this #book is for you: #4000weeks - the average life-span of a human being - by Oliver Burkeman became an instant New York Times Bestseller.

It’s not another productivity guide, quite the opposite: “Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed […]”

https://www.amazon.com/Four-Thousand-Weeks-Management-Mortals/dp/0374159122