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What if I got a grandfather clock? A ring every hour is a low-precision reminder of mine. It’s 60x less precise than a digital clock. It surprises you. It is sensorial instead of abstract.
What if I got an hour glass? It is a timer with a silent end. There is no nudge. Only when you break flow and wonder the time do you know if your interval has pas
... See moreIn the past, our timekeeping systems were synchronized with the systems of the earth. The rhythms and seasons of nature help us orient and make sense of when we are. Digital media has warped our subjective sense of time and thrown us into a state of atemporal confusion. Aside from surface-level features like “dark mode,” digital temporality is blin... See more
Aaron Z. Lewis • The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
Hartig did not flinch from the controversial implication of his results. They suggest, he observed, that what people need isn’t greater individual control over their schedules but rather what he calls “the social regulation of time”: greater outside pressure to use their time in particular ways. That means more willingness to fall in with the rhyth
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Sacred time was the time that mattered, the time you set your being to.11 You did so because sacred time was a full and gathered time, not an accelerating time.