Bad News & Good News – Part 1 of 2

I’ll give you the bad news first, so you can get the good news last.

The bad news is that you cannot manage time. To the extent that time is even real (it’s a construction of humans . . . ), it is immutable. Your perception of time can change, but you can’t control it, or even manage it.

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