Must life revolve around work? And what might happen if we no longer had to work at all...?

In the face of technological acceleration, mass automation and social change, the question of how we spend our lives ' and who we are beyond what we do for a living ' has never been more urgent. Braiding anthropology, philosophy and economics with the author's personal experience of burnout and extensive expertise in artificial intelligence, How to Spend a Life asks the reader to see the systemic forces that quietly govern their days. And, by naming and understanding them, shows how they may finally reclaim the time, meaning, and agency to shape a life that is not merely productive, but genuinely their own.

Exposing the fracture lines in our labour market, How to Spend a Life is a provocative and deeply personal exploration of the way work has come to define human existence, ultimately begging the question: can we imagine something different?