Relationship with Time

“An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.” — Bonnie Friedman

a thought after listening to Dave Fontenot on Invest like the Best:

social media shifts our relationship with time because you feel like there’s an endless number of things you have to sift through, and time starts to feel limited.

there's something about feeling a sense of abundant time that's really powerful and conducive to flow state - how do we

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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

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.”