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
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It is still a disease when compensation/coping leads to high-value skills. For eg, the intellectual disease called "strategic thinking," where it works, buys you so much time, you can stay in slow time and don't have to indulge in melee frenzies at all
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"feeling rushed" is partly about being less in control than you like, but partly also just disliking the actual pace of reality... 99.9999999% of the cosmos is a very, very slow place, but the parts we live in kinda move along at a brisk pace
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wanting to live faster than real time leads to seeking out of intense, fast-paced experiential environments (aka gonzo-ing, "I feel a need for speed"ism) and can lead to patterns of high-value artistic work, but is still a cope... you fall into depression if forced to slow down
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A basic but easily forgotten boundary condition of life is that it’s finite. If you live slowly, you’ll live less, but make more sense of it. If you live fast, you’ll live more, but make less sense of it. It’s not even obscure woo. A literal race between I/O bitrates and compute
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Most people partition across time: live faster when young and let chaos reign, live slower when older and rein in the chaos
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The transition, which you can’t control, is technically known as the Madeline Point. It’s a Proust thing.
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Your temporal archetype is given by the formula
A= ∫(closed-loop I/O bitrate)/(flops) where the integral is taken over [0, Lifespan]
Important to only integrate closed-loop bitrate where you’re interacting with environment. Pass-through (spectator/consumer life) is ignored
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Yes I’m procrastinating by shitpost-intellectualizing intellectualism diseases of time why do you ask
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The philosophically most elevating thing about programming (and the reason I’m bad at it) is that it’s the closest in-their-head types will ever get to “melee living”
Life at the heart of a software project is the closest thing to “human real-time” I’ve ever experienced.
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Other engineering is necessarily sideways from real-time to the extent the dev loop passes through slower physics regimes like fabrication.
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Michael had a very good post on “feeling rushed”
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New post on Expanding Awareness: to rush is to try to compress time
"Rushing creates a generalised tension in our bodies. There's a strong need for the rushed experience to be completed, a kind of embodied 'come on already, come on, come on' "
expandingawareness.org/blog/to-rush-i
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