Relationship with Time
Keely Adler and
Relationship with Time
LLMs introduce a temporality that is genuinely new: one that forces us to invent new cultural modes of production. How do we write, create, and remember in an environment where our tools are discontinuous archives, replaced every few years? How do we treat cultural memory when it arrives in frozen epochs, each already obsolete the moment it
... See moreSachin • Meme Time vs Archival Time - By Sachin - Summer Lightning
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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The world is moving too fast. We want everything done in the blink of an eye. We can't wait, we can't stay still. It's always a race between us and the time, and time usually wins which frustrates us. But what, if for a moment we stop, we grasp out breath and just live.
nametwitter.com1/ 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
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“The mere consciousness of an engagement will sometimes worry a whole day.” That’s Charles Dickens. In other words, if you try and break up your day into lots of little chunks of time, your productivity is massively destroyed even though the time available is pretty much notionally the same.
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
maker versus manager schedules
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
forging a better relationship with time
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