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Oliver Burkeman Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman · 2025
The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief.

The average human lifespan is roughly four thousand weeks. Burkeman argues that rather than optimizing productivity, we should embrace our finitude and focus on what truly matters. The most honest time management book ever written.

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Francis Fukuyama Liberalism and Its Discontents
Francis Fukuyama · 2025
Liberalism is under threat precisely because it has been so successful.

A compact defense of classical liberalism. Fukuyama examines how both the political right and left have pushed liberal principles to unsustainable extremes, threatening the foundations of modern democratic societies.

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Brian Klaas Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
Brian Klaas · 2025
We are all flukes — the product of an unfathomable number of unlikely events.

A book about how randomness, small events, and chance shape our lives far more than we realize. Klaas argues against the neat cause-and-effect narratives we tell ourselves.

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