Sublime

Writing allowed for the durable storage of knowledge independently of human beings. Not only can written knowledge outlive a particular individual, it can outlive a whole culture.

The New Atlantis • The Analog City and the Digital City

A Minor History of / Time Without Clocks

Joshua Foer cabinetmagazine.org

Borrowed time

Seth Godin seths.blog

How good we can transform and re-use buildings and areas that no longer fit our needs is a good criteria for future cities. Cities have been in constant evolution since Uruk became a city over five thousand years ago. There are walls in Lebanon that were built using Roman marble columns.

"What do we want to preserve?"

whatworks.fyi

Good things take time

Reframing expectations about how long it takes to do good work

Imran Yussuff • 5 cards

Future of time

Lien De Ruyck and • 21 cards

The Long Run

on building a new world, slowly with intention

lisa • 15 cards

There are no more three-day-long days. That feeling of abundance depended not upon excess and not scarcity, but finitude and a kind of thrift. It had to do with there being only so much time in the day but still more than just enough and using up every ounce of it, not wasting a moment. But to be undead is to be superfluous, perpetual. The moon is