time
Both Wheeler and Einstein believed that time was a concept of the conscious (observing) mind and not an external phenomenon.
Anthony Peake • The Hidden Universe
No one has ever really been able to topple the seven-day week. French revolutionaries tried to institute a ten-day week. Bolsheviks aimed for a five-day week. No one tried harder than Miss Elisabeth Achelis, a New York socialite, heir to the American Hard Rubber Company fortune, and an admirer of Melvil Dewey, he of the Dewey decimal system and si
... See moreJill Lepore • How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives
Days, months, and years all make sense as units of time—they match up, at least roughly, with the revolutions of Earth, the moon, and the sun.
Weeks, however, are much weirder and clunkier. A duration of seven days doesn’t align with any natural cycles or fit cleanly into months or years. And though the week has been deeply significant to Jews, Chri... See more
Weeks, however, are much weirder and clunkier. A duration of seven days doesn’t align with any natural cycles or fit cleanly into months or years. And though the week has been deeply significant to Jews, Chri... See more
Joe Pinsker • We Live By a Unit of Time That Doesn’t Make Sense
The ultimate tool for corporations to sustain a culture of this sort is to develop the 40-hour workweek as the normal lifestyle. Under these working conditions people have to build a life in the evenings and on weekends. This arrangement makes us naturally more inclined to spend heavily on entertainment and conveniences because our free time is so ... See more
raptitude.com • Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed
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I—S—O—P—T: In search of Personalized Time
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