The Existentialization of Time

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A lot of the things that help us unconsciously mark time, like just Fridays, stopped existing once we were all working from home. I keep a five year journal where every page has an entry for the same day for five years. And when I started to get to 2021 and 2022, I was looking back at the ones from 2020. It's like woke up and did had zoom meetings, made dinner, played video game, went to sleep. Like all the days are blurring together. What is time? "I got really existentialized in my journal entries in a way that I no longer am"

Our conception of time is a construct, so why does it have so much power over us? Adam and author Jenny Odell delve into the history of "time" as we know it, and how the popular obsession with trying to make the most of every second is a losing battle. Pick up Jenny's book at factuallypod.com/books

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