All posts tagged: Ian Bogost

Can We Keep Time? – The Atlantic

Can We Keep Time? – The Atlantic

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[ad_1] It can be tough to face our own mortality. Keeping diaries, posting to social media, and taking photos are all tools that can help to minimize the discomfort that comes with realizing we have limited time on Earth. But how exactly does documenting our lives impact how we live and remember them? In this episode, diarist and author Sarah Manguso reflects on the benefits and limitations of keeping track of time, and Charan Ranganath, a professor of psychology and researcher at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience, discusses what research reveals about how memories work and how we can better keep time. Listen and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts Becca Rashid: You know, Ian, whenever someone asks me to get in their BeReal, I’m always like, What? What is that? What’s happening? What are we doing? Why are we doing this? Do we need to do this? I am not very social media–savvy. So they have to give me a break. Ian Bogost: Becca, you’re …

Time Management Tips From the Universe

Time Management Tips From the Universe

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[ad_1] Time can feel like a subjective experience—different at different points in our lives. It’s also a real, measurable thing. The universe may be too big to fully comprehend, but what we do know could help inform the ways we approach our understanding of ourselves, our purpose, and our time. Theoretical physicist and black-hole expert Janna Levin explains how the science of time can inspire new thinking and fresh perspectives on a much larger scale. Listen and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts The following transcript has been edited for clarity: Janna Levin: “The one sense in which time is frustratingly different is that I cannot extend equally in each direction. I cannot just turn around and go into the past. And I seem to be always driven forward into the future. I can stand still in space, but I can’t seem to stand still in time.” Becca Rashid: Welcome to How to Keep Time. I’m Becca Rashid, co-host and producer of the show. Ian Bogost: And …

Time Management Tips From the Universe

Time Management Tips From the Universe

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[ad_1] Time can feel like a subjective experience—different at different points in our lives. It’s also a real, measurable thing. The universe may be too big to fully comprehend, but what we do know could help inform the ways we approach our understanding of ourselves, our purpose, and our time. Theoretical physicist and black-hole expert Janna Levin explains how the science of time can inspire new thinking and fresh perspectives on a much larger scale. Listen and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts The following transcript has been edited for clarity: Janna Levin: “The one sense in which time is frustratingly different is that I cannot extend equally in each direction. I cannot just turn around and go into the past. And I seem to be always driven forward into the future. I can stand still in space, but I can’t seem to stand still in time.” Becca Rashid: Welcome to How to Keep Time. I’m Becca Rashid, co-host and producer of the show. Ian Bogost: And …

How to Rest – The Atlantic

How to Rest – The Atlantic

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[ad_1] Between making time for work, family, friends, exercise, chores, shopping—the list goes on and on—it can feel like a huge accomplishment to just take a few minutes to read a book or watch TV before bed. All that busyness can lead to poor sleep quality when we finally do get to put our head down. How does our relationship with rest affect our ability to gain real benefits from it? And how can we use our free time to rest in a culture that often moralizes rest as laziness? Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, the author of several books on rest and director of global programs at 4 Day Week Global, explains what rest is and how anyone can start doing it more effectively. Listen to the conversation here: Listen and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts The following transcript has been edited for clarity: Ian Bogost: You know, Becca, even though I rest in the sense of going sideways and unconscious at night, I don’t feel like …

Should You Teach Your Kid to Make a Schedule?

Should You Teach Your Kid to Make a Schedule?

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[ad_1] For the holidays, Radio Atlantic is sharing the first episode of the Atlantic podcast How to Keep Time. Co-hosts Becca Rashid and Ian Bogost, an Atlantic contributing writer, examine our relationship with time and what we can do to reclaim it. In its first episode, they explore the idea of “wasting” time. But first, Radio Atlantic host Hanna Rosin has a question: Is teaching scheduling to a child a bad idea? The following is a transcript of the episode: Hanna Rosin: Becca. Becca Rashid: Yes, Hanna. Rosin: I have a story I want to tell you, and I don’t know if it’s excellent or terrible. Rashid: I’m sure it will be excellent, Hanna. Let’s hear it. Rosin: Okay. So, this weekend, I was hanging out with a 5-year-old. Actually, four and three-quarters, because you know how little kids are extremely precise about their age. And we were planning out all the things that we were going to do that day. And what I did was, I sat down with this kid, and I made …

How to Keep Time: Leave Work Time at Work

How to Keep Time: Leave Work Time at Work

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[ad_1] Before laptops allowed us to take the office home and smartphones could light up with notifications at any hour, work time and “life” time had clearer boundaries. Today, work is not done exclusively in the workplace, and that makes it harder to leave work at work. Co-hosts Rashid Rashid and Ian Bogost examine the habits that shrink our available time, and Ignacio Sánchez Prado, a professor of Latin American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, offers his reflections on American culture and shares suggestions for how to use the time we do have, for life. Listen and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts The following transcript has been edited for clarity: Ian Bogost: So Becca, many years ago I was driving home from work, and I had a terrible day. I don’t remember why, but I was just cheesed off. And I was, like, white-knuckling my steering wheel, you know, still angry from whatever had happened. As I was driving, I saw a colleague of …

How to Keep Time: How to Look Busy

How to Keep Time: How to Look Busy

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[ad_1] Many of us complain about being too busy—and about not having enough time to do the things we really want to do. But has busyness become an excuse for our inability to focus on what matters? According to Neeru Paharia, a marketing professor at Arizona State University, time is a sort of luxury good—the more of it you have, the more valuable you are. But her research also revealed that, for many Americans, having less time and being busy can be a status symbol for others to notice. And when it comes to the signals we create for ourselves, sociologist Melissa Mazmanian reveals a few myths that may be keeping us from living the lives we want with the meaningful connections we crave. Listen and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts The following transcript has been edited for clarity: Becca Rashid: Ian, I was having lunch with a friend last weekend who was trying to organize a birthday party for her colleague. Ian Bogost: Okay; great. …

What Trump’s Second Term Could Look Like

What Trump’s Second Term Could Look Like

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[ad_1] This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. In the January/February issue of The Atlantic, 24 writers explain how Donald Trump could destroy America’s civic and democratic institutions, including its courts, national political culture, and military, if he succeeds in returning to the Oval Office. First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic: What a Collapse Would Look Like For years, Donald Trump’s many opponents were often accused of alarmism, and early on, this seemed a justified criticism: Before he was even sworn in, words such as fascist and autocrat were in the air. Although I was a charter member of the Never Trump movement, I worried that catastrophizing Trump and depicting him as an invincible Demogorgon would induce helplessness and resignation among American citizens. When Trump was defeated in 2020, however, many voters took that as a sign that the guardrails had held and …

How to Keep Time: How to Waste Time

How to Keep Time: How to Waste Time

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[ad_1] Co-hosts Becca Rashid and Ian Bogost explore our relationship with time and how to reclaim it. Why is it so important to be productive? Why can it feel like there’s never enough time in a day? Why are so many of us conditioned to believe that being more productive makes us better people? The following transcript has been edited for clarity: Becca Rashid: So Ian, when I sent you that voice note yesterday, I just wanted to let you in my head a little bit. Rashid field tape: Hello, Ian. Alas, I’m waiting at the bus stop, and it seems it will never come. Rashid: A small glimpse into how anxious I am just waiting for anything. Rashid field tape: I don’t know what to do. Do I just start walking? Do I give up? Do I walk to the Metro? At this point, who really knows? It’s been probably four minutes. Oh! Ian Bogost: It was only four minutes, Becca. It’s not very much time. Rashid: It’s embarrassing, and I’m standing there, and …

Unserious debates for an unserious primary

Unserious debates for an unserious primary

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[ad_1] This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. The GOP debates have turned into performance art. They demean our electoral process, but many in the national media are backing away from facts and probity and enabling the worst candidates in their effort to corner the attention market. First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic: Working the Refs I watched the Republican primary debate last night, and at first, I had no real intention of writing again about a process that is now a national embarrassment. But when it was over, I couldn’t shake the thought of how far America has come over the past few decades—and how far down our politics have fallen. I will not criticize Nikki Haley for calling Vivek Ramaswamy “scum” last night. Ramaswamy tried to pull Haley’s daughter into the debate, and I applaud her for speaking up with such …