time management often sees units of time in individual time banks: I have mine, and you have yours. In this world, when I give some of my time to you, I have less. Our interactions can be nothing other than transactional. If that is not true—if you and I exist in a field of mutual influence where time is neither fungible nor commodified—then what could “time management” mean? I think it would have to mean, at least in part, some kind of mutually beneficial agreement between you and me about when and how we want to do things.

