A “calendar” built on awe-struck gratitude.
Life is too short for TradCal mindset. This piece is a follow-on to this post, which articulates the enemy here. https://www.seanmcdonald.xyz/p/tradcal-mindset-the-ugly-liar-problemSolution Design Requirement 1) Gratitude mindset.I am personally grateful every day that I exist. I am grateful that consciousness emerged from the stardust. I’m grateful that it happened in such a way that I can enjoy the world around me — and the other conscious beings who exist at the same time as me. We have ne...
A “calendar” built on awe-struck gratitude.
Life is too short for TradCal mindset. This piece is a follow-on to this post, which articulates the enemy here. https://www.seanmcdonald.xyz/p/tradcal-mindset-the-ugly-liar-problemSolution Design Requirement 1) Gratitude mindset.I am personally grateful every day that I exist. I am grateful that consciousness emerged from the stardust. I’m grateful that it happened in such a way that I can enjoy the world around me — and the other conscious beings who exist at the same time as me. We have ne...
The Ugly Liar Problem & TradCal NPC Mindset
The Grid is an Ugly Liar.This is a stack of screenshots from six of the world’s most popular calendar apps, stacked on top of one another with opacity lowered to see them all. Welcome to The Grid. Carbon floats through the universe. Billions of years. Energy vibrates it. Consciousness emerges. Eventually conscious beings realize this is what happened. We awaken, probing into our past. With that sacred gift of time, we organize things in a grid, which repeats forever. Most of the grid goes to ...
The Ugly Liar Problem & TradCal NPC Mindset
The Grid is an Ugly Liar.This is a stack of screenshots from six of the world’s most popular calendar apps, stacked on top of one another with opacity lowered to see them all. Welcome to The Grid. Carbon floats through the universe. Billions of years. Energy vibrates it. Consciousness emerges. Eventually conscious beings realize this is what happened. We awaken, probing into our past. With that sacred gift of time, we organize things in a grid, which repeats forever. Most of the grid goes to ...
The Clockchain Protocol -- the L1 for time.
This is a story about a data structure. Our ancestors inscribed "carpe diem" on their sundials. We will decentralize time. Both help us live great lives.The essay that follows is an attempt to bring science fiction - storytelling about a data structure - into an operational, open source software project. As a design or set of specifications, this essay is insufficient and incomplete. This is a story about a data structure. This essay proposes new software tools for the data structures we use ...
The Clockchain Protocol -- the L1 for time.
This is a story about a data structure. Our ancestors inscribed "carpe diem" on their sundials. We will decentralize time. Both help us live great lives.The essay that follows is an attempt to bring science fiction - storytelling about a data structure - into an operational, open source software project. As a design or set of specifications, this essay is insufficient and incomplete. This is a story about a data structure. This essay proposes new software tools for the data structures we use ...
In the future, your calendar will care about you.
Act 1: In the future, your calendar will care about you.We’re building Sundial because our calendars are functional but abusive vestiges of another time, with absurd assumptions . Coordination is critical — sometimes. But how much of our lives really, truly need to be coordinated to the second, in an era where computers solve more and more of our problems? Less and less. Rather than prove it in a lengthy post, I’ll give you, the reader, the benefit of the doubt on forecasting the long-term im...
In the future, your calendar will care about you.
Act 1: In the future, your calendar will care about you.We’re building Sundial because our calendars are functional but abusive vestiges of another time, with absurd assumptions . Coordination is critical — sometimes. But how much of our lives really, truly need to be coordinated to the second, in an era where computers solve more and more of our problems? Less and less. Rather than prove it in a lengthy post, I’ll give you, the reader, the benefit of the doubt on forecasting the long-term im...
Sundial Web App Launches, Time Travel Features Coming Soon
Try our web app, or book a time to edit your life story.Act 1: Time is ScarceFor the shamans of ancient México, time was something like a thought; a thought thought by something unrealizable in its magnitude. Carlos Castaneda, The Wheel of Time44 Million Minutes and The Long History of Whole Life Time ModelsJust as Jonathon Larson counted when he wrote the lyrics for RENT, we can all count how many minutes our life might be. If it’s 525,600 minutes per year, and if we live about 84 years, the...
Sundial Web App Launches, Time Travel Features Coming Soon
Try our web app, or book a time to edit your life story.Act 1: Time is ScarceFor the shamans of ancient México, time was something like a thought; a thought thought by something unrealizable in its magnitude. Carlos Castaneda, The Wheel of Time44 Million Minutes and The Long History of Whole Life Time ModelsJust as Jonathon Larson counted when he wrote the lyrics for RENT, we can all count how many minutes our life might be. If it’s 525,600 minutes per year, and if we live about 84 years, the...
