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Linear Time

1. Plan or respond

Is it more important to plan your all the rest of your actions?

or

Should you regulate your next action?

2. Additive

Do all your little actions simply add up to be your total impact?

or

Are there some crucial actions that determine your fate?

3. Is time linear?

Is time linear or does it pulse?

Do you live by a clock and grid or is your life a dialog with nature?

4. How can we think about time?

Science: Odum and Odum 2001 "A prosperous way down."

Humanities: Miranda Beverly-Whittemore "The effects of light". Time comes in patches.

Neuroscience: people overestimate the time to contact when they are in the process of decelerating

5. Multiple scales

You have to live at different scales

time - from minutes to multiple seasons

space - local to international

Each little piece of your life is important on its own (not just as it adds up to the total).