Relationship with Time
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Relationship with Time
“Energy management beats time management.”
― Katherine Morgan Schafler
Mirrors and clocks transformed society, but they’re so old that nobody questions them.
Clocks created a culture of anxiety.
Mirrors created a culture of narcissism.
David Perelltwitter.com“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
Time is the friend of the consistent and the enemy of the inconsistent.
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.comThere 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