Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
A first step is to entertain possible selves:29 identify some people you admire within or outside your field, and observe what they actually do at work day by day. A second step is to develop hypotheses about how these paths might align with your own interests, skills, and values. A third step is to test out the different identities by running
... See moreAdam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
This is a world in which time is not fluid, parting to make way for events. Instead, time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past. Every action, every thought, every breath of wind, every flight of birds is completely determined, forever… In a world of fixed future, life is
... See moreThe Marginalian • Einstein’s Dreams: Physicist Alan Lightman’s Poetic Exploration of Time and the Antidote to the Anxiety of Aliveness – The Marginalian
No one has ever really been able to topple the seven-day week. French revolutionaries tried to institute a ten-day week. Bolsheviks aimed for a five-day week. No one tried harder than Miss Elisabeth Achelis, a New York socialite, heir to the American Hard Rubber Company fortune, and an admirer of Melvil Dewey, he of the Dewey decimal system and
... See moreJill Lepore • How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives
strong presentation is often what gets an idea accepted. If the story is told well, and the presenter speaks with an understanding of the client and their world, it can help people connect emotionally, functionally, or practically.A strong presentation can help people believe in something riskier or more complex.
The Long Now Foundation
longnow.org
Future of time and Time
smuggling unusual tools
Planktons in the Sea: A Few Questions Regarding the Qualities of Time - Journal #27 September 2011 - e-flux
Raqs Media Collectivee-flux.com
our biology is tethered to the sun, yet the clocks society uses to keep time are influenced by a tangled web of political and historical factors.