Nouran Abed
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Nouran Abed
- “It seems like the quantified self movement is about our relationship with time, about the fact that we don’t know how much we exercised or what we ate, we can’t really perceive ourselves mechanically and in a world where there are so many units of time all at once, where there are so many timeframes. It’s really easy to lose track of when you... See more
Paul Ford • 10 Timeframes
i keep thinking about these rituals of famous creative women, from @Moonkissed Edit ★
emmsubstack.comSuperficially, this seems like a sensible way to live, especially in a hypercompetitive economic climate, in which it feels as though you must constantly make the most judicious use of your time if you want to stay afloat. (It also reflects the manner in which most of us were raised: to prioritize future benefits over current enjoyments.) But
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
The Solo Table Theory When you sit alone at a café in a foreign city, you realize you don't need company to enjoy life. You taste every sip. You sit with your thoughts. You watch the world pass by. Realizing your own company is enough.
All I knew then was what I couldn’t do. All I knew then was what I wasn’t, and it took me some years to discover what I was.
Which was a writer.
By which I mean not a “good” writer or a “bad” writer but simply a writer, a person whose most absorbed and passionate hours are spent arranging words on pieces of paper. Had my credentials been in order I... See more
Which was a writer.
By which I mean not a “good” writer or a “bad” writer but simply a writer, a person whose most absorbed and passionate hours are spent arranging words on pieces of paper. Had my credentials been in order I... See more
Joan Didion • Joan Didion: Why I Write
on writing
"the question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
- edsger dijkstra
Rushing has a built-in excuse. Rushing pushes us to skip steps or ship junk.
But hurrying acknowledges how precious this moment in time is. It honors our good fortune to be in this place, able to contribute something generous
But hurrying acknowledges how precious this moment in time is. It honors our good fortune to be in this place, able to contribute something generous
We can now measure and analyze dimensions of personal and social life that we wouldn’t even have thought to measure a decade or two ago. It was always theoretically possible for us to count our steps, but altogether impractical. Now we can have it done for us passively. Indeed, as most of us know all too well, all manner of information about us and... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Limits of Optimization
“The infoverse may be infinite, but our allotment of days is not.” We ought to be conscious of how far and how quickly we move through the internet. But without a physical way to observe our time spent online, we risk scrolling, skimming, and hyperlinking ourselves to oblivion.