Chronemics
To borrow from the language of economics, Salcedo sees time as a regular kind of “good”—a resource that’s more valuable to you the more of it you command. (Money is the classic example: it’s better to control more of it than less.) Yet the truth is that time is also a “network good,” one that derives its value from how many other people have access
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
It is these durational expectancies, different in each society but learned early and deeply ingrained, that are shaken up when the pace of life is altered.