Leave One Hour Unclaimed
The time AI gives back does not need another assignment. A free hour becomes yours when you can leave it unclaimed. … readLeave One Hour Unclaimed
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Sixteen Futures, One Past
Turn a dial from 100% uncertainty to 0% and watch the future become the past, one bit at a time. A playable thought from my new free book, How the Future Becomes the Past: A Mythology of Quantum Gravity. … readSixteen Futures, One Past
What Is a Deadline
A deadline is supposed to be a point ahead of you that approaches, arrives and passes, weighing more the nearer it gets. The foundation says there is nothing ahead of you: a deadline is a present mark that names a clock reading and a condition on the record, and the weight is not the nearness of the date but your own reading of your own unfinished act against the prediction the mark installed — which is why an extension relieves before any work is done, why a deadline you never heard of weighs nothing as it passes, and why the hopelessly late go calm. … readWhat Is a Deadline
What Is Age
Age is supposed to be the time a thing has behind it, and older is supposed to mean farther back. Duration is undefined exactly where that picture stores it: an age is a count taken in the present, between two marks, against a counter you chose to trust — which is why a bronze can lose two thousand years in an afternoon and a wedding can feel nearer than last year’s job. … readWhat Is Age
The Two Clocks
You keep two clocks: the prospective one that spends your minutes, and the retrospective one that keeps your years — and the second runs on surprise. Why the years accelerate, what remembered time is made of, and the exchange rate nobody shows you when the stack smooths your days. … readThe Two Clocks
The Handle That Is Not on the Door
Regret is not weakness and it is not a moral failing. It is a category error performed with feeling — and once you see which half of it cannot possibly work, you can stop blaming yourself for the failure. … readThe Handle That Is Not on the Door
What Is Time
You were taught time is a road and that you are travelling along it. Almost everything strange about time comes from that one picture, and it is the wrong one. You are not moving — you are vibrating between two things that do not exist. … readWhat Is Time