Meditations for Mortals · What Did They Read?

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2 episodes

264: The Accountability-Shaped Hole

Focused, 8 September 2026. The book comes up at 37 min 15 sec in.

A host briefly invokes Meditations for Mortals while discussing ever-growing capture lists, citing Burkeman's metaphor of a read-later list as a river of items flowing past — the point being that there is no obligation to act on everything captured, and it is fine to let items drop off the end.

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263: Removing the Roadblocks, with Cat Mulvihill

Focused, 26 August 2026. The book comes up at 54 min 41 sec in. It comes up in passing.

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