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Tempo is the level of activity within a scene via dialogue, action, or a combination.

Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

This notion of time as an “economic resource” is exactly what vibing aims to break away from... time is not an empty thing we have to fill but a living thing that we must shape. Time changes. Because the world changes, and we change with it. To vibe is to shape time into pleasure, to mold it into something that feels soft and tastes sw

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Mary Retta • on vibing

- “On the elegant analog clock, meanwhile, time swells and recedes, like waves and seasons and life. The hands evoke the rotation of the earth, the movements of celestial objects, the cosmos.”

New York Times • How Analog Clocks Can Give Us More by Giving Us Less (Published 2020)

every living being, event, process or object has its own inherent time or pace, its own tempo giusto.

Carl Honore • In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed

Time don’t crawl and time don’t fly; time is still. You do with it what you want: roll it up, stretch it out, or here we just let it lie.

Gloria Naylor • Mama Day

the ancient Greeks distinguished two kinds of time, “kairos (opportunity or the propitious moment) and chronos (eternal or ongoing time). While the first . . . offers hope, the second extends a warning.” Kairos is the time of cleverness, chronos the time of wisdom.

Stewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility

Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making - by Venkatesh Rao

fluidself.org

time as process of the human body. In order to accomplish a new relationship with, and behavior within, time, the essential initial step is to move away from its linear time structure towards a new rhythm.