Quickening

Because the world is quickening – not just speeding up but quickening because it has a direction in time – it very much feels like we have less time.

And so we try to use technology the best we can to create more of it. And that sorta works.

What most of us don’t realize is that you can’t save old time, the time that you used to have, you have to create time that you’ve never (ever) had before, fresh time. Unfortunately, this means that if you’re going to pull it off, really cultivate some fresh time, you can’t use yesterday’s technology – or even the children of yesterday’s technology.

Instead, you have to use the stuff that you’ve never heard of, that hasn’t been tested by thousands of users and hundreds of friends, and that you have to find rather than it finding you.

The quickening has taken the time you used to have away, but it’s also created many of the tools (and is doing so as we speak) through the hands of entrepreneurs, developers, and designers unknown to you that think natively in terms of the quickening.

So, if you can let go of what’s heavy, outdated and time constraining, it won’t create a void. I guarantee it. It will create space where new, lighter weight technologies can appear, and you can get some (fresh) work done.

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