time
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The boss of time
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1 min read
Time is more important than money, yet time is money. So the clock (exported by the East India Company) emerged as a system for streamlining global trade. He who obeys the hour, minute, and second is a slave of time. Nature moves toward continuous variation regardless of tick-tocks, adhering to the sun, water, seasons, and…
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My now is your now
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Humans are entropic; we die the minute we’re born. Our lives are limited by time. But life goes on. It keeps ticking away. NASA discovered seven Earth-like planets that no one reading this will ever see. Machines are starting to take over jobs. The AI revolution will do everything from making music to curating it.…
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More time is better than more money 💸
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2 min read
Time is the most valuable asset we have, yet we often fritter away the minutes using money. Instead of walking up the mountain, we pay to take the lift. Instead of using the local train, we hop in a more expensive cab ride. Such convenience circumvents the lived experience. The most memorable experiences are the…
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The clock is always boss
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When we’re young, one second can last forever. Patience runs thin. The opposite is true as we age — life seems to speed up along with all the responsibilities. And time refuses to slow down. As adults, we wish we could do nothing on purpose, let alone feel our brain processing the freedom of summer.…
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The growing block theory of time
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Time is simply blocks or slices of reality, added on top of one another. Writes C. D. Broad’s in his theory of time in 1923: […] such a theory as this accepts the reality of the present and the past, but holds that the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present…
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Getting to zero time
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2 min read
Time is constant. And it keeps on moving with more and more rapidity, driven by technology. Said painter Fredericka Foster in her interview with composer Philip Glass: Time is speeding up in a real way. Younger people’s sense of time is completely different than mine; they have been working on screen time since they were…
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U.K. schools dismiss the traditional clock face
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The U.K. is eliminating analog clocks from student classrooms because kids can’t read them. Says one professor from the Times Educational Supplement newspaper: “It is amazing the number of students I am coming across in year 10, 11 and in sixth form who do not know how to tell the time. We live in a…