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Temporal Belonging
There is an alternative: the unfashionable but powerful notion of letting time use you, approaching life not as an opportunity to implement your predetermined plans for success but as a matter of responding to the needs of your place and your moment in history. I want to be clear that I’m not suggesting our troubles with time are somehow all in the
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Like our other troubles with time, our loss of synchrony obviously can’t be solved exclusively at the level of the individual or the family. (Good luck persuading everyone in your neighborhood to take the same day off work each week.) But we do each get to decide whether to collaborate with the ethos of individual time sovereignty or to resist it. ... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
The more we synchronize ourselves with the time in clocks, the more we fall out of sync with our own bodies and the world around us.
noemamag.com • The Tyranny of Time | NOEMA
People will struggle to structure their time now that virtual activities carry more social weight than they did in the past. IRL hangouts have more tangible controls and barriers to entry that prevent people from engaging endlessly, and physical anchors that help form habits and routines. Without that, people are going to either burn out or quickly... See more
Toby Shorin • Premonition
