I have a deep and abiding fascination with time (as I guess most of us temporally-ensnared humans do - what would the plastic surgery industry be without feeding such obsession) ..(or in fact the Getting Things Done cult.ure of time management..wish I could say I was an acolyte, but I’m yet to crack the nod of the gods who dole out effortless efficiency).
No doubt each choose our own experience of time.. which accounts for the fact that at different points time flies, crawls, or horror!! those who go on an active cull and kill time! there are even cultures who have reversed their concept of past and future. Stubbornly proving lifetime after lifetime that linear time has a good firm footing in our cultural and not merely biological encoding
One of my favourite sites for those not afraid of the big questions at the frontier is The Insitute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (serious mouthful, but soooo worth it, if you have the time… check this article on hacking time). With all this progressive complexity and accelerating change to wrap our heads around %-/ sometimes it’s best to keep it simple, the way Einstein explained it in his famous analogy of this wacky elastic experience of stretchybendy time we all get to feel:
“When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.”
Continue reading ‘Time Hacking for beginners’
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I love a little social subversion if it helps to tease life back into our being. Reviving the numbness set in by constant busyness, the thrusted assault of advertising or frustrated impotence as we’re bludgeoned with increasing horrifying news we can do nothing about.
Progressive complexity and ever more wonderous tools and toys avalanche towards us at an acceleration unprecedented >>
which is why when really simple human moments happen, they are all the more precious and sweet.
Nothing complicated, just ordinary things that remind us to breathe in.. look up and smile, or laugh uproariously with mates or play on the beach with a wiggly puppy.
As deep as our affinity for tech can run, stepping out from behind the screens is imperative or we’ll all start succumbing to the singularity polarity insanity (this is a note to self BTW who happens to be far to entranced by the prospect of transhumanism and AI)
So while you’re still behind your screen, I recommend a little inspiration (if you haven’t seen it.. it’s a gift to your hassled heart, so just bloody well watch it!)
PS. taking this onto the hard-core city streets may be a little more than heads can cope with though so be gentle.
* body language at it’s best - the simple sign-language ” I love you”
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I’ve no good excuse for not posting other than maybe that I need firmer discipline (ouch!).
Harnessing passion, vision, determination fuelled by an unwavering sense of purpose with superior logistics = crystallised genius. It’s the latter bit of the equation I’ve been missing.. and it’s starting to hurt. [Acceleration demands integrity so all the particles move in the same direction so they don't get blown apart and descend into chaos].
Beginning an thought experiment this week that deeply challenges my inherent need for freedom. By commiting wholeheartedly to a crisp time schedule [with a much needed overlord (thanks Dr Don) to oversee the proceedings for good measure - he comes bearing a big steel ruler]. He promises to be formidably icy if I try to crack the system with charm! Good luck bru :-P
Freshly inspired by the temporal-warping thoughts of the legendary Steve Pavlina, particularly on productivity and applying classic Max style, I’m giving it horns!
This HAS to work or I’m screwed. (I’d have to surrender: hand my little spirited self back to the deadening dumbed-down drone-thronged world of work that bright humans get suckered into with the false promise of freedom, at the cost of fullbodied thumping ALIVENESS and meaningful, maybe even legendary effect) WHAT!? what am I thinking!?
This has to work.
Do you have a life/work/time altering master-secret that really works? If you have any secrets or clues to refining focus to laser point and being hyper-productive yet still happy PLEASE share!
It’s a daily battle not to sweetly surrender to the narcoleptic siren call to just chill that CapeTown suffuses softly, but firmly around those who might dare to be productive.. so for the geopsychologically challenged in particular who have overcome..bring it on!
All tweaks welcomed.. with the baseline requirement that it allows me to actually drink the coffee and not obsess about the cup.
PS. just discovered that I am not alone in this endeavour this week .. thanks Scott for the links (quietly thinks : excellent, more Work Avoidance Behaviour incoming.. reams of reading & research on how to just get things done, and then the bonus of organising the necessary GTD support group) …mmm can see I’d be well on the way to a very sore bottom if I try to make this an artform as many time-management devotees have discovered.. instead of just bloody doing it
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..know those times when you feel the earth move? When titanic shifts are rumbling under your feet, you can’t see their effect yet, but you KNOW that when they break ground it’ll be momentous?! Last week was one of those big ole techtonic* shake-ups for me.
Think it may’ve started with the meet.up with the force of nature known as Mike Stopfornothing! [Boom! This man ROCKS! and has the energy to light up a city... put him on your radar if you haven't already].
The dovetailing synchronicity of surprising events is speeding up which is always a precursor to an evolutionary earthquake.
The last time this happened I was on sabbatical; so terrified and full of blazing rage I poured my heart onto a canvas to avoid being consumed
Continue reading ‘Rock my world’
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