“individual experiences of time depend upon where people are positioned within a larger economy of temporal worth.” It’s an important clarification, and it reminds me of a Goodreads review of Kate Northrup’s Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Ambitious Women. In that book, one piece of advice is to sync your work schedule with your menstrual cycle (another zeitgeber) in order to exploit differing energy levels throughout the month. Reader Sarah K. observes that this makes sense only for someone with money or control of her own time. “Say I simplify by hiring a
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