Can We Keep Time?
We have become archivists of the self, I thought, curators of a life half-lived. Each countless photograph of a wonder, of dinner, of a view, of our children, of the utter banality of our everyday lives, was not a memento, a way of remembering the things we did, but instead evidence of the poverty of our engagement with the present moment.
M. E. Rothwell • All Hail the Cloud
"Any maximizing, economistic approach to living becomes a kind of hoarding as the means and ends reverse and it tips over into irrationality. It’s hoarding when I keep opening tabs, when I try to get to the end of my RSS article queue, when I use iTunes play counts to organize my listening habits, when I buy books I won’t live to read, when all ema... See more
Rob Horning • Clutter images
I have thousands of photos of my children but few that I’ve set aside to revisit. I have records of virtually every text I’ve sent since I was in college but no idea how to find the ones that meant something. I spent years blasting my thoughts to millions of people on X and Facebook even as I fell behind on correspondence with dear friends. I have ... See more
Sari Azout • "What Does Sublime Actually Do?"
My experiments with time are evolving. Phase 1 was to see what it was like to “get off the clocks”—what happens with no awareness of the time? I found myself budgeting time less. 2 months later, I still have my lock screen in Cambodian, my MacOS screensaver hides the time, and the system clock is analog. My watch/phone is now set to normal though,
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