Oliver Burkeman

British journalist — former Guardian columnist — author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals — who argues that productivity optimization is a death-anxiety coping mechanism and that accepting finite time is the path to meaningful life.

Creates the anti-productivity productivity book — Four Thousand Weeks's argument (that the goal of getting everything done is delusional and prevents genuine engagement with what matters, and that embracing radical finitude is more life-enhancing than time optimization) is the most philosophically serious challenge to the productivity genre.