TradCal Mindset, The Ugly Liar Problem & The Way Out
Time is our greatest gift, yet our interfaces for time are Ugly Liars. If you don't believe me, open your calendar app and ask yourself to simultaneously consider beauty.
The Grid is an Ugly Liar.
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 productive income generation, for most of the consciousnesses. The rest of the grid goes to consuming and watching things.
The grid is an ugly liar. It’s visually ugly. And it’s lying. The time it pretends exists does not. There is no Tuesday. It’s the Queen’s time. There are not 24 hours in a day. There could be 312 hours in a day, if we all agreed. Tomorrow morning, we could have 1 hour days. You work for about 35 minutes each day, in that model. It’s an effective lie — sort of — as long as we all pretend that a clock in Greenwich, London is and should be the central point of time. That's legit how it works, today.
The grid is a coordinator, not an achiever. We live in stories, fluid mental states over our lifetime of identities, often sitting beside one another. Many things are achieved by coordination. Manufacturing facilities need people to show up at the same time. (For now.) But we have profoundly overfit our consciousness to coordinated time.
Let’s not forget the grid is ugly. It's just a grid of squares. It’s not how I see my budget of conscious hours.
This mindset - traditional calendar mindset - is an enemy I’m naming TradCal.
TradCal Mindset.
NPC's are non-player characters in video games.
TradCal living is the embodiment of NPC mindset.
TradCal is an absurd pitch, if you lay it out.
Do you want your model of time to never ever change? Do you want to repeat the same exact thing for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week? We’ve got something for you! It’s a grid calendar. Welcome to TradCal, where your life is a grid, designed to serve the people with whom you coordinate, mostly for income.
What’s going on in your life? Doesn’t matter! Don’t sweat - TradCal keeps on going no matter how you feel, what the weather is, or what’s going on in life or culture. If a government needs to shift around your calendar, no problem! TradCal is fully compliant and honors all local, regional, and corporate time constraints.
Don’t want to think about your own mortality or the preciousness of the gift of time? No problem! We never mention it. Most of the time, TradCal keeps you focused on the week ahead. That’s what matters, you.
If you don’t use TradCal, how will you comply? The Grid offered by TradCal is easy to mimic. So, externalize your conscious experience to a coordination grid. It’ll be easy to do commerce. Done learning in life? Join TradCal now. Get a timed job. Enjoy your two weeks.
The way out.
Looking for a way out? Try Sundial. You might be surprised by how mapping out your whole impacts your perspective on how you live today. It’s free and easy to start.
https://app.sundialcalendar.com
Sean McDonald is building Sundial to live in a world full of people living great lives.
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