Time Flies

Filed under: Flow State, Human Experience, Industrial vs. Natural Time, Lewis Mumford, Temporal Synchronization, The Bigger Story, The Present Clock, Time Perception

You're laughing with friends around a lawn sprinkler in late summer. The world outside that moment fades away. Hours slip by unnoticed. Later, you realize you never once thought of time. Not because time stopped. Because you stopped measuring it....

The Sky Disc

Filed under: Ancient Astronomy, Archaeology of Time, Cosmic Orientation, Halle Germany, Nebra Sky Disc, Summer Solstice, The Present in Public

A 3,600 year old version of The Present.

Temporal Myopia: A Civilizational Pathology

Filed under: Behavioral Economics, Future Self-Continuity, Hyperbolic Discounting, Neuroscience of Time, Short-termism, Social Acceleration, Temporal Myopia, Time Famine

Clinical Diagnosis of Temporal Myopia: A Civilizational Pathology Executive Summary: The Etiology of the Present The following clinical report constitutes a comprehensive diagnostic analysis of "Temporal Myopia," a pervasive civilizational pathology characterized by a systemic and progressive inability to perceive,...

Circadian and Circannual Time

Filed under: Biological Rhythms, Circadian Rhythms, Circannual Rhythms, Nature Rhythms, Seasonal Living, Time Perception, Wellness Design

Circadian is the 24-hour rhythm most of modern life is built around: sleep, wake, work, repeat. Circannual is the yearly rhythm we live inside just as surely: the slow shift of light, seasons, energy, and mood across the year

The Chronology of Wholeness

Filed under: Complexity Theory, Planetary Sapience, Polycene, Post-Humanism, Relationalism, Scott Thrift, Second Mountain, Time Mask

Throughout 2025, I've noticed a trend in articles by The Times, Noema, and The New York Times of attempting to define the era we live in to better understand its contours, meaning, and consequences. You are reading this on the...

Facing the Post-Exit Founder's Void

Filed under: Dopamine Fasting, Founder's Blues, Identity Fusion, Pace Layering, Post-Exit Founder, Scott Thrift, Sudden Wealth Syndrome, Temporal Dissonance

Are you a Post-Exit Founder asking "what now?" This comprehensive report is for you. TLDR; You should seriously consider giving yourself The Present.

A Soft Rebellion in Time

Filed under: Clock Tampering, Digital Sabbath, Saint Monday, Slow Movement, Standard Time Resistance, Task Orientation, The Present Clock, Time Rebellion

Hello, I created this report because rebellion doesn’t only look like protests, manifestos, or smashed machines. Sometimes it looks like something much quieter: refusing to accept the version of time we’ve been handed. The way we measure and obey time...

The Power of Physical Artifacts in a Digital Age

Filed under: Analog Revival, Attention Restoration Theory, Device Paradigm, Embodied Cognition, Extended Mind, Focal Things, Media Ecology, The Present Clock

In a world dominated by screens and notifications, physical objects still have a unique power to shape how we feel, think, and experience time. Throughout history, artifacts like sundials, compasses, ritual tools, and seasonal calendars didn’t just measure reality, they...

Temporal Bandwidth, Industrial Time, and The Present

Filed under: Gravity's Rainbow, Industrial Rationalization, La Durée, László Krasznahorkai, Mondaugen's Law, Temporal Bandwidth, The Present Clock, Time Mask

"We are living in an era of 'Narrow Bandwidth,' where the industrialization of time has fractured our attention and thinned our sense of self. Drawing on the prescient warnings of Thomas Pynchon and the insights of Nobel Laureate Laszlo Krasznahorkai,...

Qualitative vs Quantitative Time

This research explores the tension between quantitative time, the objective, measured, chronological time that structures society, and qualitative time, the subjective, lived, and felt time that gives life meaning.

The Present as Civilizational Medicine

Reconnecting Culture, Psyche, and Planet Through an Annual Timepiece

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