In this edition of our Two for Tea podcast, I talk to Oliver Burkeman about his new book 4,000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, a work about how our obsession with productivity can cause us to lose sight of what is most important within our all-too-short lifespans.
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Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking (2012), Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done (2011) and Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (2021).
Iona Italia
Iona Italia is Areo Magazine's editor-in-chief and the host of the associated podcast Two for Tea. She is the author of two books: Anxious Employment (a study of eighteenth-century essayists) and Our Tango World (sociological and philosophical musings on dance and life). Her political essays can be found here; she also publishes weekly creative non-fiction pieces on her Substack, The Second Swim.
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