1/ people say "time goes faster when you're older", and there's some decent truth to it, but I've heard a good counter argument, and I buy it: time goes slowly when there's novelty, and quickly when there's nothttps://twitter.com/hradzka/status/1379528007409311744 …
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2/ when you're five years old and every day is a new adventure - a new cartoon on TV, a new puddle to splash in, a new food you've never heard of, 10 new words, a bird in the sky unlike any you've seen before each day lasts a decade
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3/ when you're 40 something and spend 900 days in a row wake-up-coffee-commute-work-fix-bug-go-home-flip-on-tv-watch-HBO-oh-its-bedtime-lather-rinse-repeat each day lasts 15 minutes, and 900 days in a row feel like just 10 or 12
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4/ My 7.25 years on the farm have subjectively lasted perhaps twice that long there's so much to do, and a lot of novelty, and I'm newly revealed as incompetent in a dozen new things per week
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5/ I released my first novels, what, 9, 10, 11 years back? No. The books shipped less than 4 years ago. In between I've been logging trees, fighting the town zoning board, killing knotweed, planning a cider orchard, butchering pigs, burning slash piles, and more.
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6/ If you want to live [ subjectively ] longer, add novelty to your life.
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