Metadata
- Authors: Aline Holzwarth Samuel Salzer
- Full Title:: AI, Productivity, and Human Finitude: A Conversation With Oliver Burkeman
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://behavioralscientist.org/ai-productivity-and-human-finitude-a-conversation-with-oliver-burkeman/
- Read date:: 2025-06-17
Highlights
Being more productive at work doesn’t mean more novel writing and marathon running. It usually just means more work. (View Highlight)
the metaphor I use is seeing your “To Read” piles as a river rather than a bucket. Not something that fills up and then it’s your job to empty it, but something that flows past you. You pluck things from it that seem interesting, and you let the others go. (View Highlight)
if you see all of this as leading up to some future point when real life will begin, or when you can finally start enjoying yourself, or feeling good about yourself—then you’ll end up treating your actual life as something to ‘get through,’ until one day it’ll be over, without the meaningful part ever having arrived. We have to show up as fully as possible here, in the swim of things as they are.” (View Highlight)