Join 📚 Nicole's Highlights

A batch of the best highlights from what Nicole's read, .

**Rashid:** I’ve always wondered if this sort of compulsive documentation—these habits we have around writing down what happens at any moment in time—is actually about the fear of losing time, and our impulse to, you know, want to control it. > **Sarah Manguso:** I felt this kind of maybe pathological anxiety that if I lost those memories, if I lost the memory of the emotional weather of the day, I would be losing some essential part of myself, this essential part of my life.

Can We Keep Time?

Becca Rashid, Ian Bogost

Disorder itself is what gives time its order. The engine that powers it is probability: There are more ways for things to fall apart than come together. Entropy (almost) inevitably increases.

Is the Physics of Time Actually Changing?

KC Cole

The herd stick close together and do not wish to take risks, they rely on the shepherd to show them what is good for them.

Nietzsche’s Three Steps to a Meaningful Life

Steven Gambardella

...catch up on these, and many more highlights