Relationship with Time
Keely Adler and
Relationship with Time
“The mere consciousness of an engagement will sometimes worry a whole day.” That’s Charles Dickens. In other words, if you try and break up your day into lots of little chunks of time, your productivity is massively destroyed even though the time available is pretty much notionally the same.
Rory Sutherland • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
maker versus manager schedules
Look at how we’ve changed the capturing of the passing of time. Before we rewired our brains to connect personal with commercial, down time as wasted opportunity, we used to talk about our accomplishments as memories. We remember the marathon we ran, the little moments that made that day feel so significant. That marathon included training, but we ... See more
Posting Nexus • Here's What the Fight for Your Attention Really Looks Like
what’s indulgent is just doing, not documenting
There are brilliant examples all over the place of people tweaking time subjectively. One of my favorites is the Uber map. It doesn’t change how long you wait for the taxi. It changes the quality of the waiting time by reducing uncertainty. If you look at human emotions, although humans might say, “I don’t like waiting for a taxi,” what makes them ... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
going quite a bit faster when you’re going slowly is a really big gain. Going very fast when you’re already going fast is the action of a dickhead.
I didn’t fancy the linearity of conventional biographies,” he said. “Lives don’t run in straight lines, and every time we think about them in retrospect (i.e., every time we start remembering) we actually rethink them. Our lives are stories we write and rewrite. There is no single reliable narrative of a life.”
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“In a situation where every waking moment has become the time in which we make our living,” Odell notes, “and when we submit even our leisure for numerical evaluation via likes on Facebook and Instagram, constantly checking on its performance like one checks a stock, time becomes an economic resource that we can no longer justify spending on ‘nothi
... See moreMary Retta • on vibing
We very often do not have the time to create what we need by ourselves. It’s reasonable to ask who on Earth is expected to return our emails or make our dinners while we wile away our time crafting. We’ve increased the distance between ourselves and the things we need or want—and also made for ourselves a steeper learning curve for meeting our own ... See more
Redefining "Handy" and Learning How to Make Things
You need to let yourself have time! The effects are intangible but so so important
the differences between what we call time in space (physics) and what we perceive as time in our minds (psychology). The dissonance of the definition of time in both realms shows us how much we need to unlearn the fragmented worldview in order to recollect the pieces in a unified approach.