Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman · 2000
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A work of fiction by Oliver Burkeman, published in 2000. Four Thousand Weeks has become a lasting reference in its field — valued for its insight, clarity, and enduring relevance.
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“As I’ve said before, I carry this memento mori coin in my pocket to remind me: You can leave life at any minute. Let that determine what you do and say and think. (I also have a piece of a tombstone on my bathroom counter). Oliver Burkeman’s new book illustrates the same point well–we have roughly four thousand weeks on this planet. How will we spend them? How should we think about them? And don’t be deceived by medical advancements. As I said in my monuments talk, I got to know a guy who lived to be 112. That’s still ‘only’ like 5,800 weeks.”