WLP378 Booknotes: Make Time and Four Thousand Weeks

WLP378 Booknotes: Make Time and Four Thousand Weeks

From 21st Century Work Life by Pilar Orti

January 22, 2026 · 34 min

About this episode

Pilar Orti shares insights from her readings of 'Make Time' and 'Four Thousand Weeks' while providing personal updates.

Another episode from the season Booknotes, where Pilar shares the notes she made while reading a book, allowing new insights to emerge spontaneously behind the microphone. In today's episode: Part 1 Pilar shares her booknotes from: Make Time: How to focus on what happens every day by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count by Oliver Burkman "The technologies we use to try to 'get on top of everything' always fail us, in the end, because they increase the size of the 'everything' of which we're trying to get on top." And don't forget to check out Connection and Disconnection in Remote Teams , the book! Part 2: Personal Updates Pilar is reading this novel, which she's really enjoying: In a Good Light by Clare Chambers An announcement: Pilates for Remote Workers is in the making… Feedback has come through for All the World's a Workplace Pilar has to go back to re-writing the cozy mystery in third person… pilarwrites.com

People in this episode

Host: Pilar Orti

Topics covered

  • booknotes
  • time management
  • personal development
  • remote work
  • productivity

Keywords

  • productivity
  • time management
  • personal development
  • remote work
  • booknotes

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Make Time, Four Thousand Weeks, In a Good Light, Connection and Disconnection in Remote Teams

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