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Mental time zones - by David Gasca - Mystical Silicon

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Why information speed matters

Let’s talk about mental time zones and why it’s valuable to get “slow news.” In the book Anathem, Neal Stephenson writes about a world where there are many concentric "convents" with different time horizons. The gates of each convent are closed and they only open once every certain time period: the “One-offs” communicate with the secular world once a year. The Tenners talk with the external world every 10 years. The Centenarias every 100 and the Thousanders every 1,000. One of the interesting insights of this book’s thought experiment is that time zones “synchronize” based on…

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