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Real Cost of Work
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Everything worth your time on the question: What am I paying in health, time and relationships?
Five things on this subject: one TAIU exercise and four things to read. It opens with Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. Read this if your problem isn't knowing what matters.
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What is this job actually costing me: talk it throughREAD · BOOK
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Read this if your problem isn't knowing what matters. Your problem is trying to make everything matter at once.
The title comes from a simple observation. An average human life is surprisingly short when expressed in weeks. Burkeman challenges the idea that becoming more productive will eventually create enough time for everything. It won't.
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The Burnout Challenge
Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter
Forty years of research arguing that burnout is a mismatch between a person and the conditions they work in, not a deficiency in the person. Worth the time if you are about to redesign your entire life on the strength of feeling depleted. The two are easy to confuse. The remedies are not remotely the same.
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Long Working Hours and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke
Mika Kivimäki and colleagues
A meta analysis across more than half a million people. It puts a number on something usually discussed as a feeling.
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The Productivity of Working Hours
John Pencavel
Output per hour falls sharply after a threshold, so the extra hours are frequently bought at full price and delivered at a discount.
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