Marginalium

How people spent their time in the 1930’s:

They spent 48 hours working, 56 hours sleeping, 31 hours on home obligations, and 24 hours eating or running errands. What remained, a rather precarious 9 hours per week, was time spent in the pursuit of what could generously be called pleasure.

From work by Thorndike, famous for his operant conditioning work. As the author of this writer points out:

the raw math of our leisure isn’t so different … perhaps [Thorndike would] offer the same advice: rather than merely expanding the hours devoted to entertainment, perhaps we could elevate the quality of our daily routines