Relationship with Time
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Relationship with Time
“An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.”
— Bonnie Friedman
The way of the tourist is to consume; the way of the pilgrim is to be consumed. To the tourist the journey is a means. The pilgrim understands that it is both a means and an end in itself. The tourist and the pilgrim experience time differently. For the former, time is the foe that gives consumption its urgency. For the latter, time is a gift in... See more
The Tourist and the Pilgrim
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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
culture is non-stationary—it changes, mutates, refuses to hold still. As Emmet puts it, models “actually get dumber over time as you use them,” because they are frozen snapshots of a past cultural moment. What they capture brilliantly is instantly outdated; what they recombine convincingly is subtly decayed.
Sachin • Meme Time vs Archival Time - By Sachin - Summer Lightning
Discovered my new fav metaphor for time in Richard Powers’ novel about trees, The Overstory 🌳
Another essay I've been procrastinating on: clocks and calendars are tools imposed by rulers (consider what "to rule" really means) to measure, manage and control the world. it's a way of colonizing time, which is in many ways even more insidious than colonizing space https://t.co/gbMX3PuPku
Visakan Veerasamytwitter.comlanguage models operate in archival slices — frozen cultural moments recombined as if timeless. Each model release creates a new epoch, already slipping toward obsolescence