‘Death isn’t a problem to fix’ - Oliver Burkeman
5/14/202642 min
What does it mean to live well, knowing our time is finite?
Author Oliver Burkeman joins Joanna Ebenstein for a conversation about time, mortality, and what it means to live well inside finite lives.
Best known for Four Thousand Weeks, Burkeman reflects on his shift from scepticism about self-help and productivity culture to a deeper engagement with anxiety, limitation, and acceptance. Together, they explore why the drive to “do everything” so often leaves us more overwhelmed—and what changes when we stop treating finitude as a problem to solve.
The conversation moves through Stoici...
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Joanna Ebenstein· Host1:04
[instrumental music] Welcome to Memento Morbid, where we explore death, life, and the in between. It's hosted by me, Joanna Ebenstein, founder of Morbid Anatomy, an organization and community devoted to these very themes. Hello. During this episode of Memento Morbid,