Four Thousand Weeks is the Futures Book Club featured read for January!

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals - from Oliver Burkeman

“We live in an age of impossible demands, infinite choice, relentless distraction and spiralling global crises. Yet most productivity advice, like other modern messages about time, makes things worse. It encourages the fantasy that we might one day “get everything done”, becoming the fully optimized, emotionally invincible masters of our time. The pursuit of this limit-denying delusion systematically leaves us more busy, distracted, and isolated from each other – while postponing the truly important parts of life to some point in the future that never quite seems to arrive.”

– Oliver Burkeman describing this book

While a little left of field of our usual futures reads, Four Thousand Weeks invites us to consider the future on a personal scale, and our own relationship with it. I'm chomping at the bit to get into this one!

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New reads stick around a while. This book will be discussed in February, March & April.

There's still time to get involved with recently featured books

Imaginable by Jane McGonigal

With a gamer’s affinity for imagined worlds and the futurist’s gusto for embracing what comes next, Jane McGonigal urges us to place ourselves ten years hence, look around, imagine what might be, ask questions, run into walls, start anew. Imaginable is both argument for action and blueprint, an irresistible thought-experiment with practical, urgent application, a playful, provocative, and wildly inspiring read. Make the unimaginable imaginable and see the possibilities unfolding.

Upcoming discussions: early January, February & March

Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth

Doughnut Economics proposes an economic mindset that's fit for our times. It's not a set of policies and institutions, but rather a way of thinking to bring about the regenerative and distributive dynamics that this century calls for. Drawing on insights from diverse schools of economic thought - including ecological, feminist, institutional, behavioural and complexity economics - it sets out seven ways to think like a 21st century economist in order to transform economies, local to global.

Upcoming discussions: November, January & February

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