Tag: Deadlines

  • Time, Deadlines and the Illusion of ‘Later’

    Time, Deadlines and the Illusion of ‘Later’

    We treat time like a friendly, flexible substance. “I’ll do it later.” “There’s still time.” “The deadline is just a suggestion.” From a physics point of view, time is not particularly flexible. It just moves, one second after another, while we perform increasingly creative tricks to pretend it doesn’t. The straight line we keep ignoring…