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Some snippets from the latest Possibility Economy 🌱: an exploration on why seeing friends has started to feel more and more like admin.
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instagram.com1. Ancient Mayans didn’t see time as a line — they saw it as a breath. Priests taught children to repeat: “Time does not pass — it arrives.” It meant every hour brings energy instead of taking it away. People who lived by that idea didn’t race time; they met it.
2. Burnout, they said, happens when a person treats time... See more
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The only unit of time that matters is heartbeats. Even if the world were totally silent, even in a dark room covered in five layers of foam, you’d be able to count your own heartbeats.
When you get on a plane and travel you go 15 heartbeats per mile. That is, in the time it takes to travel a mile in flight your heart beats 15 times. On a train your... See more
When you get on a plane and travel you go 15 heartbeats per mile. That is, in the time it takes to travel a mile in flight your heart beats 15 times. On a train your... See more
I think that at this point in life—after ten or so years of a proliferative mode in the online idiom—there is a craving to return to an earlier, slower internet. Before real chronology and temporal relationships were replaced with sped-up simulations of real-time.
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Imagining the future is just another form of memory. It’s a kind of forward-looking nostalgia. “The history of utopias is the history of rear-view mirrors. Every utopia is a picture of the preceding age.”3 If your memory gets scrambled, your ability to envision a coherent future is severely hampered. When the past feels slippery or shifty, you lose... See more
Aaron Z. Lewis • The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
We’re lost in the garden of forking memes, and the idea of linear progress along a single historical time line seems like a quaint artifact from a much simpler era. Grand visions of the future are few and far between; the pop cultural landscape is littered with post-apocalyptic dystopias. If we want to make sense of how we got here, we have to... See more