Relationship with Time
Keely Adler and
Relationship with Time
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
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
1/ Wealth is a claim on other people's time
There are a lot of theories on what money is, on what wealth is.
Economists have written very long books on this. It is debt, it is the evolution of barter, it is an information system, etc, etc.
All of these are true... See more
6529twitter.comhanging out as a way to reclaim time as something other than a raw ingredient to be converted into productivity
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #40
Oliver Burkeman – Time Management for Mortals
onbeing.org
this reminds me of Byung-Chul Han’s work on the disappearance of rituals.
There is wonder and beauty in emptiness. What happens when we come to know that everything we experience is timelessly ephemeral – as fleeting as a “tiny drop of dew or a bubble floating in a stream”? As writer Octavia Butler invokes, what if God is change? I become present with each moment as a divine gift. I become wholly intimate with each... See more