EP 489: Temporal Bandwidth

This episode is about the long term—the commitments, projects, and relationships we can work on when our "temporal bandwidth" widens. How we perceive time and our ability to do what's meaningful to us in time does have to be constrained by the urgency of now. There are ways to feel more grounded and create more possibilities at the same time.

Footnotes:

• Read the essay version of this episode.
• The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein
• On Freedom by Timothy Snyder
• Breaking Bread with the Dead by Alan Jacobs
• How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
• "Practicing the Future" by Tara McMullin
• "Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey Stuff" by Tara McMullin
• "Busyness Decoded" by Tara McMullin

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• (00:00) - Time Flies


• (02:34) - The Steerswoman


• (06:20) - "Temporal bandwidth is the width of your present"


• (10:12) - Making the difficult choice


• (15:02) - Credits