Relationship with Time
Keely Adler and
Relationship with Time
The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
Aaron Z. Lewisaaronzlewis.comAnother 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.com
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
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
