Oliver Burkeman's 2021 philosophical argument — that the average human life is 4,000 weeks, that the belief you can get everything done is an avoidance of this reality, and that embracing finitude rather than optimizing against it is the path to meaningful life.
Creates the finitude philosophy for the productivity era — Four Thousand Weeks argues that the productivity movement's promise (get everything done and then you'll have time to live) is structurally dishonest, and that meaningful choices require accepting what won't get done — a Stoic/existentialist argument repackaged for the productivity reader.
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