Relationship with Time
Keely Adler and
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
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
Look at how we’ve changed the capturing of the passing of time. Before we rewired our brains to connect personal with commercial, down time as wasted opportunity, we used to talk about our accomplishments as memories. We remember the marathon we ran, the little moments that made that day feel so significant. That marathon included training, but we... See more
Julia Alexander • Here's What the Fight for Your Attention Really Looks Like
what’s indulgent is just doing, not documenting
Five Minutes to Moonflower (Published 2015)
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hanging out as a way to reclaim time as something other than a raw ingredient to be converted into productivity
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The most authentic, fleshed out, truly female-centered narratives (e.g. Little Women and My Brilliant Friend) all include Time as a main character.
Women exist in cycles, phases, periods, seasons. A snapshot in time of a woman is not what she once was or what she will be. We are maidens, mothers, and matriarchs. We... See more
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