When time is money, idle hours are a waste of money. This is the philosophical underpinning of all our modern stress: that time is too valuable to waste. We don’t pass time, we spend it. It’s no wonder that we don’t really have pastimes anymore.

—Celeste Headlee, Do Nothing. Highlighted Mar 31, 2023

# capitalism

We work long hours in order to make more money, not realizing that once we’ve met our fundamental needs, it is leisure time that increases happiness, not necessarily extra cash.

—Celeste Headlee, Do Nothing. Highlighted Mar 31, 2023

# capitalism

The key to well-being is shared humanity, even though we are pushing further and further toward separation.

—Celeste Headlee, Do Nothing. Highlighted Mar 31, 2023

# vulnerability # cohousing

When you have fewer hours available to you, you automatically focus on the task at hand and ignore what’s irrelevant. The quality of your work goes up as the allotted hours go down, so you can often accomplish more in four hours than in five.

—Celeste Headlee, Do Nothing. Highlighted Mar 31, 2023

# productivity