He argues that modern society's obsession with optimization and being constantly dialed in is a form of violence against the natural human difficulty of balancing life.

“for better or worse, we are in this hyper optimization focused culture that tells us if we're not fully dialed in, then there's something wrong with us, which in my opinion is kind of a form of violence given how challenging life is already”

Constant busyness and productivity culture often function as a mechanism to avoid processing past trauma and emotional pain.

“We try to outrun our problems. We try to outrun our trauma and our pain. We cannot sit still. So, you have this quiz in the book and I I I got almost a perfect score on this in which you basically ask these questions to try to help self-dagnose people as to whether they're, you know, they're they're”

He claims that modern productivity culture often relies on harmful illusions, and that individuals should instead focus on clarifying their priorities and setting boundaries.

“there are all these kind of productivity hacks that I think are really illusions and what we often need to do is uh clarify our priorities and grapple with the fact that we have limited time and energy and and clarify.”