‘4000 Weeks’ Delivers 3 Gut-Punches in the First 50 Pages

My tagged and bent copy. Photo: DM Hanton

The book, 4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman is not new; it was published back in 2021. But somehow, it passed me by at the time. Then, late last year, three people, over the course of two weeks, mentioned on social media that they were reading it. I took this as the Universe trying to get my attention. And get it, it did — though some of its insights hit hard.