Productivity and time management techniques can be used as a form of emotional avoidance of the fear of finitude.

“so all the way back through the record of philosophy back to the ancient Greeks and Romans there are people grappling with the fact that there is death but it's only in a widespread way uh with maybe not the Industrial Revolution but running up to that and certainly Beyond after it that most people would were think thinking I think about time as a resource right so it's not just the medium in which your life unfolds it's like this it's almost like there's you and there's time and it's your job somehow to try to handle time in the right way”