Saving Time
by Jenny Odell
Odell's follow-up: where our idea of time as money came from (factories, slavery, colonial clocks), how it shapes leisure and burnout, and what other experiences of time (geological, ecological, communal) might offer. Dense, wide-ranging and not a productivity book in any sense.
Read it if…
you want to understand why time feels like a debt.
Skip it if…
you want to manage time; the book questions the premise.
Three things you will actually use
- Clock time is a historical invention, not a law.
- Burnout is a time problem before a task problem.
- There are other times to live in.
Do this first
Read the chapter on leisure and write what you do that is not for anything.
Our verdict
Why time feels like a debt.
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