{"id":59,"date":"2023-01-09T10:36:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T15:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2023-01-09T10:36:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T15:36:50","slug":"four-thousand-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/09\/four-thousand-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Thousand Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to read &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Four-Thousand-Weeks-Management-Mortals\/dp\/0374159122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Four Thousand Weeks<\/a>&#8221; from Oliver Burkeman.  I initially listened to much of the audio book, then bought a copy (link above to Amazon &#8211; no affiliate link).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have not finished yet, but the core message of the book seems to be <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We all have a finite amount of time<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The possibilities for how to spend our time are effectively limitless<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Every choice impacts what choices are available in the future<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Embrace these truths vs fighting them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s certainly more to it than this, and again, I&#8217;m not finished, but these are the main ideas that have stuck with me so far.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burkeman starts to dig a bit in to philosophy of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Heidegger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Martin Heidegger<\/a> and his notions of &#8216;being&#8217;.  Started to get a bit complicated in audio format (part of the reason I bought the book). While I have a background in philosophy, Heidegger was never someone I dug in to before, but may need to now.  Apparently he&#8217;s not the easiest to read\/parse\/digest, so&#8230; I may have to look for a basic intro piece first \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea of &#8220;limit your works in progress&#8221; has also stuck with me a bit since reading it.  Practically, I can never have more than a few projects going at the same time, so it&#8217;s not so much explicitly forcing myself to limit, but&#8230; accepting the limit.  Perhaps other people do struggle with this more than I do (having 15 active projects going on at the same time?).  I have a lot of things at the back of my mind, but I rarely have more than 3 or 4 active projects &#8211; there&#8217;s just not enough hours in aweek to handle that anyway.  Maybe 20 years ago I took on more concurrent projects\/activities?  I can&#8217;t quite remember! :). The author references the &#8216;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Personal-Kanban-Mapping-Work-Navigating\/dp\/1453802266\" target=\"_blank\">personal kanban<\/a>&#8216; idea (link to book) as well, which is probably an endorsement (will need to revisit that section again).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I may add more to this post as I work through the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting to read &#8220;Four Thousand Weeks&#8221; from Oliver Burkeman. I initially listened to much of the audio book, then bought a copy (link above to Amazon &#8211; no affiliate link). Have not finished yet, but the core message of the book seems to be There&#8217;s certainly more to it than this, and again, I&#8217;m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}