Relationship with Time
Keely Adler and
Relationship with Time
Art critic Jonathan Crary’s book 24/7 explores how we entered a culture that battles against rest and time itself. A nonstop 24/7 culture that never turns off. If attention is finite, a 24/7 society fights to expand the surface area of waking time to capture more of it.
Matt Klein • The Art of (Attention) War
If a problem arose, it was typical of my Italian friends to shrug their shoulders and say “Boh”—an untranslatable word that means something like “I have no idea what to say or do, or what you want me to say or do, so I’m just going to make this funny sound and move on with my day.” You can see why this might be great for entrepreneurship or... See more
Luke Burgis • Everything Is Fast
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Charles Eisenstein • 5 highlights
amazon.comOperator life: Quick tempo, constant follow-up, putting out fires, racing through the to-do list.
Creative life: Long bouts of daydreaming, followed by short bursts of intense and inspired action.
David Perellx.commaker vs manager
Time is the friend of the consistent and the enemy of the inconsistent.
Finally, to repeat one more time: productivity in the wrong direction isn’t worth anything at all. Think more about what to work on.
Sam Altman • Productivity
The internet embodies this carnival temporality with startling clarity:
• Cyclical bursts : meme cycles, outrage waves, and news frenzies erupt, fade, and return with variation.
• Inversions : anonymous users become viral, while experts, CEOs, and politicians are mocked, parodied, or dethroned.
• Acceleration & simultaneity : the timeline collapses
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