every disease of intellectualism is reducible to unwillingness to live in real time
most often people want to live slower than real time and that's like 17 diseases, but some want to live faster, and that's like 3-4 more
Some version of this is the DSM for temporality diseases
Frodo: “I wish it need not have happened in my time”
Gandalf: “So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
I suspect my entire career is overcompensation for felt reluctance to live in real time (in my case Slow Disease #7)
-- studied control theory (aka "real time" engineering)
-- wrote one book on time, writing another
-- gravitate to more real-time media (blogs, twitter)
-- consulting practice built around time-centric management ideas (TTM-minimization, OODA loops etc)
... train of thought sparked by my saying "I'm solving for TTM, not quality, quality can be fixed in post..."
Half the shit I say to clients is about forcing time-awareness
I also like to get to the airport early and have never missed a flight in my life (not counting connections)
I think people who argue that never missing a flight is suboptimal are wrong (or don't have phones or don't like airports) but it IS a strong symptom of slow-time disease