Put this into practice

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Real Cost of Work

TAIU

Count the hours, not only the salary.

Counts the hours, travel, recovery and attention a job takes, not only the salary it pays.

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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, because the two are easy to confuse and 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.