Relationship with Time
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Relationship with Time
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.
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I—S—O—P—T: In search of Personalized Time
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Discovered my new fav metaphor for time in Richard Powers’ novel about trees, The Overstory 🌳
“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
I find most meetings are best scheduled for 15-20 minutes, or 2 hours. The default of 1 hour is usually wrong, and leads to a lot of wasted time.