Media Scholar, Game Designer, Computer Scientist, Author - Washington University in St. Louis, The Atlantic, Persuasive Games
All six episodes of How to Keep time, the The Atlantic podcast I co-hosted Rebecca Rashid, are now available. Listen wherever you listen to podcasts. The podcast is about time, what it is, and how to make use of the limited amount of it you have in the day—and in your life. We spoke to neuroscientists, self-help authors, memoirists, cultural scholars, theoretical physicists, and more, trying to suss out how to keep time. That turned out to mean something different than we thought. Some of the key lessons I took away from our work: - You absolutely can't get everything done. Stop thinking about time use as a process driven by efficiency - Feeling "busy" is a sign that you don't really know why you're using time in the way you are. - Rest can mean nothing, but it works best when you're active—but with something other than work. - Time is change. Without time, you and nothing else can exist at all, let alone evolve. But that also means you can't go back. - But you can, and must, go forward. To do so well, you have to actively produce your memories by curating what you remember and how you do it. Just hoarding stuff isn't a good answer.