Relationship with Time

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

Christmas and New Year’s are two of the only holidays still widely observed in the United States. Meaning: the vast majority of non-emergency services are off. I’ve alway found it interesting, or clever, or annoying, the way these two holidays were placed an exact week apart: not enough time to really get back in the swing of anything ,

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