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
this reminds me of Byung-Chul Han’s work on the disappearance of rituals.
Operator life: Quick tempo, constant follow-up, putting out fires, racing through the to-do list.
Creative life: Long bouts of daydreaming, followed by short bursts of intense and inspired action.
“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.