The flattening of the to-do list and the over-quest for optimization
Somehow we arrived at this weird place where to-do lists should never end and everything needs to be "growth hacked." WTF?
Picked my friend up at the airport yesterday. On the way there, I listened to this April 2019 podcast from Ezra Klein about how "work is identity, and burnout is lifestyle." The two guests are Anne Helen Petersen, who wrote a BuzzFeed article about millennials becoming the burnout generation -- and Derek Thompson, who wrote the "workism" article in The …
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