time
“Humans are not meant to keep exact time,” the Native poet Sandra Ball once said. “We are meant to live within the confines of seasons, light and dark, and our own body’s rhythms, which are not the same from day to day or from year to year.”
mary retta • close but not quite
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,... 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,... 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
Through video calls, we can now communicate instantly with people on the other side of the planet, thereby collapsing distance. Through technologies such as video recording, we now document more comprehensive records of the past / our past selves, thereby collapsing time. This makes how we view the past different from those before photography and... See more
Story Waters • You are a God dreaming of time and space.
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I—S—O—P—T: In search of Personalized Time
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Both Wheeler and Einstein believed that time was a concept of the conscious (observing) mind and not an external phenomenon.