Time and the art of living

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• gyepi · Apr 7, 2014 · Recommends

  …Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh, I realized that all three books are actually talking about the same subject from different perspectives. To this list, I would add: anything by Robert Grudin, but especially: Time and the Art of Living and The Grace of Great Things How to solve it by G. Polya Conceptual Blockbusting by James Adams Nice to see the Mortimer Adler recommendation as well, but I think his How to Read a Book should be…

  on “Alan Kay's Reading List” ↗
• schlagetown · Jan 5, 2020 · Recommends

  …Collected Schizophrenias—Esmé Weijun Wang 53. Best books I've read in the last 10 years: The Moonstone—Wilkie Collins Moby Dick—Melville Infinite Jest—DFW Pilgrim at Tinker Creek—Dillard Impro—Johnstone Time and the Art of Living—Grudin Le Ton beau de Marot—Hofstadter Death and Life of Great American Cities—Jacobs 72. There are many books we should know about for reasons other than the story or info (etc.) of the text itself.…

  on “Ask HN: Are books worth it?” ↗
• schlagetown · Sep 2, 2017 · Recommends

  …Machine; Deschooling Society] Clock of the Long Now, by Stewart Brand - for the concepts of deep time and the long now; appreciating a sense of how we experience time and our place in history [See also: Time and the Art of Living] Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott - creative parable that's very helpful for conceptualizing abstract concepts of topology and higher dimensions Thinking in Systems, A Primer, by Donella Meadows - great…

  on “Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?” ↗
• seanc · Oct 26, 2022 · Mentions

  …of five different languages. It is no wonder then that we often look into our own immediate past or future, last Tuesday or a week from Sunday, with feelings of helpless confusion. … —Robert Grudin, Time and the Art of Living. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Date...

  on “Time is an illusion, Unix time doubly so” ↗
• moe · Jun 18, 2009 · Mentions

  …languages. It is no wonder then that we often look into our own immediate past or future, last Tuesday or a week from Sunday, with feelings of helpless confusion. ... -- Robert Grudin, `Time and the Art of Living'.

  on “Sometimes PostgreSQL time calculation is just too clever” ↗
• sigil · Mar 23, 2011 · Mentions

  …of five different languages. It is no wonder then that we often look into our own immediate past or future, last Tuesday or a week from Sunday, with feelings of helpless confusion." — Robert Grudin, Time and the Art of Living. [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Date-...

  on “How I Lost $100 and Blamed It On cal(1)” ↗
• gwalker · Jun 19, 2012 · Mentions

  …languages. It is no wonder then that we often look into our own immediate past or future, last Tuesday or a week from Sunday, with feelings of helpless confusion. ... -- Robert Grudin, `Time and the Art of Living'.

  on “Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time” ↗
• rigmarole · Mar 13, 2022 · Mentions

  In “Time & The Art of Living”, Robert Grudin structured his chapters and verses after this calendar. In the last (or so) chapter he explicitly discusses decimal time, and the beauty of being able to calculate and reason about the calendar. He also made some suggestions on using 20-hour days as a way of making it slightly more compatible to the 24-hour day.

  on “Show HN: French Republican Calendar based on equinoxes” ↗
• seanc · Oct 8, 2022 · Mentions

  …five different languages. It is no wonder then that we often look into our own immediate past or future, last Tuesday or a week from Sunday, with feelings of helpless confusion. ... --Robert Grudin, 'Time and the Art of Living'.

  on “The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet's Time” ↗