Time
- Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast is discontinuous, slow is continuous. Fast and small instructs slow and big by accrued innovation and by occasional revolution. Slow and big controls small and fast by constraint and constancy. Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power.
from Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning by Stewart Brand
Leo Guinan added 2mo ago
- In other words, the faster you try to change, the more likely you are to backslide. The very pursuit of rapid change dials up a wide range of counteracting forces which are fighting to pull you back into your previous lifestyle. You might be able to beat equilibrium for a little while, but pretty soon your energy fades and the backsliding begins.
from The Paradox of Behavior Change by James Clear
Leo Guinan added 2mo ago
Technology changes fast, people change slow
Leo Guinan added 2mo ago
I see time to be directly linked to attention. You can fuse with your surroundings (archaic time), lock into one object (magical time/flow/addiction), orient around events, narrative or cycles (mythical time), or obsess over budgeting hours and minutes (rational time). The idea of escaping rational time and realizing “I am time” is liberating, and
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There is a lonely absurdity in the idea of racing against the clock at the end of time,
from Saving Time by Jenny Odell
Leo Guinan added 2mo ago
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