Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso How Author Jenny Odell Discovered a Life Beyond the Clock
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Apr 2, 2023 AI Snips
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Self-Optimization's Troubled Roots
- Early self-optimization rhetoric borrowed from Taylorism and eugenicist ideas of human efficiency.
- Modern 'productivity bro' culture continues framing people as machines to be optimized.
Viral Time-Hack Clip Critiqued
- The host plays a viral clip where Ed Mylit claims to create "21 days a week" by rearranging hours.
- Jenny finds it both ridiculous and a revealing expression of industrial time applied to the self.
Garden Time Not Bank It
- Barbara Adam proposes gardening time: inventing and stewarding diverse rhythms instead of saving/spending uniform hours.
- Recognizing chrono-diversity reconnects social time with earth rhythms and lived experience.