Naval Ravikant’s line pivots the usual complaint about modern life. Instead of blaming an overflowing schedule, he points to an overflowing appetite—an inner list of desires that multiplies faster than any calendar can accommodate. In other words, time pressure often isn’t created by tasks themselves, but by the expanding set of outcomes we feel we must pursue.
Once you see that distinction, the problem becomes less about productivity hacks and more about priorities. The constraint is not the number of hours in a day, but the number of competing “shoulds” we allow to claim them. [...]
