Introduction: In the long run, we're all dead -- Part I: Choosing to choose. The limit-embracing life ; The efficiency trap ; Facing finitude ;
Becoming a better procrastinator ; The watermelon problem ; The intimate interrupter -- Part II: Beyond control. We never really have time ;
You are here ; Rediscovering rest ; The impatience spiral ; Staying on the bus ; The loneliness of the digital nomad ; Cosmic insignificance
therapy ; The human disease -- Afterword: Beyond hope -- Appendix: Ten tools for embracing your finitude

Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done, ' he introduces listeners to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways people have come to think about time aren't inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices made as individuals and as a society, and that people could do things differently