Relationship with Time
by Keely Adler and · updated 1mo ago
Relationship with Time
Agalia Tan added 1mo ago
- 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.”
from archive.ph
Agalia Tan added 2mo ago
“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
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Agalia Tan added 2mo ago
- 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
from Redefining "Handy" and Learning How to Make Things
Agalia Tan added 2mo ago
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.
from #016 Unlearning time by Nogueira de Menezes
Keely Adler added 3mo ago
I find most meetings are best scheduled for 15-20 minutes, or 2 hours. The default of 1 hour is usually wrong, and leads to a lot of wasted time.
from Productivity by Sam Altman
Keely Adler added 3mo ago
Finally, to repeat one more time: productivity in the wrong direction isn’t worth anything at all. Think more about what to work on.
from Productivity by Sam Altman
Keely Adler added 3mo ago
hanging out as a way to reclaim time as something other than a raw ingredient to be converted into productivity
from Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #40 by Creative Destruction
Keely Adler added 3mo ago
forging a better relationship with time
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Agalia Tan added 4mo ago