Renaissance
rest and leisure; aversion to; hobbies in; instrumental attitude toward; in medieval times; productivity and; sabbath and
Richards, E. G.
Right To Be Lazy, The (Lafargue)
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Rinaldi, Karen
Road Less Traveled, The (Peck)
Roberts, Jennifer
Robinson, Marilynne
rocks in the jar parable
Rohr, Richard
Rosa, Hartmut
Rosetta Stone
routine
Royal Caribbean Cruises
running
sabbath
Sabbath as Resistance (Brueggemann)
Salcedo, Mario
saying no
Scarry, Richard
schedules; community and; five-day week; freedom and; on-demand
Schopenhauer, Arthur
scientific management
Seamless
second-order changes
security
Seneca
serializing
Sermon on the Mount
Setiya, Kieran
settling
sex life
Shabbat elevator
Shawopa, Geshe
Shulevitz, Judith
Silicon Valley
singing
Sisyphus
skill acquisition and experience
smartphones
Social Acceleration (Rosa)
social media; charitable causes and; Facebook; Twitter
Soviet Union
speed addiction
spontaneity
Stalin, Joseph
standards, impossible
Starbucks
Steel, Danielle
Stewart, Rod
Stoppard, Tom
surfing
Sweden
Sydney Opera House
synchronization; loss of; of movement; of singing; of vacations
Take Back Your Time
Tao Te Ching
task orientation
Taylor, Frederick Winslow
Taylor, Steve
Teach Yourself to Live (Du Cann)
Technics and Civilization (Mumford)
technology; boring and single-purpose; impatience and
telephone networks
telic activities
This Life (Hägglund)
Tift, Bruce
time: abstract idea of; being; borrowed; as budget good; clocks and; as conveyor belt; deep (timelessness); eternity; finite, see finitude; having or getting; hoarding versus sharing; instrumental relationship to; letting it use you; life as separate from; mastery over; medieval people and; modern way of thinking about; as network good; as resource; social regulation of; speeding up as one ages; using; wasting; work expanding to fill; “wrongness” in use of
Time and Free Will (Bergson)
time management systems; life hacks; most important project in; protecting your time in; see also productivity
to-do lists; open, closed, and “on hold”
totalitarian movements
Tracy, Brian, Master Your Time, Master Your Life
travel
Trejo-Mathys, Jonathan
Tuktoyaktuk
Twelve Steps
Twitter
Uber
underachievement, strategic
unemployment
universe, indifference of
U.S. Catholic
US Travel Association
vacations
van Gogh, Vincent
variable rewards
von Franz, Marie-Louise
waiting in line
walking
watermelon video
Watson, David
Watts, Alan
wealth
Weber, Max
weekends
Wilson, Timothy
Wolfe, Thomas
work; career; daily time boundaries for; decisions about; as distraction; expansion of, to fill available time; impossible standards and; Industrial Revolution and; in medieval times; overwork; pay for; productivity at; rest and; settling in; weekends and; work-life balance; workplace policies
works in progress, limiting
workweek, five-day
World as Will and Idea, The (Schopenhauer)
World Athletics Championships
World War II
worry and anxiety about the future
writing
Wu, Tim
Yorkshire Dales
Young, Shinzen (Steve)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig)
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraphs
Introduction: In the Long Run, We’re All Dead
Part I: Choosing to Choose
1. The Limit-Embracing Life
2. The Efficiency Trap
3. Facing Finitude
4. Becoming a Better Procrastinator
5. The Watermelon Problem
6. The Intimate Interrupter
Part II: Beyond Control
7. We Never Really Have Time
8. You Are Here
9. Rediscovering Rest
10. The Impatience Spiral
11. Staying on the Bus
12. The Loneliness of the Digital Nomad
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