Relationship with Time

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

“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.

“Energy management beats time management.” ― Katherine Morgan Schafler

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

Discovered my new fav metaphor for time in Richard Powers’ novel about trees, The Overstory 🌳