[2.5 stars]

While this books contains some interesting information about the history of American work culture and how we can begin to reimagine productivity through prioritizing leisure, it fails to address the immense privilege required to be able to cultivate this in real life. It makes no mention of wealth disparity (and is overloaded with anecdotal chapters about successful and wealthy people who’ve managed to cultivate work/life balance), or practical tips for people who do not have the luxury of working less. This book is more suited for C-suite executives, billionaires and other people in positions of power who need to re-examine how they run their companies and teams but few of them have an incentive to do so it would’ve benefited the writers to take a more encompassing approach that considered the perspectives of the people who are most impacted by our relentless culture of busyness. I appreciate that this book has made me think about my relationship with rest, technology and productivity but it was mostly a lot of redundant information that could’ve been told in half the amount of pages.