Hacking Time with Chris Dancy

Have you ever noticed how different the time could be? It flies when we are in a flow state, moves like a snail when we are standing in a queue and disappears when we start reading our Facebook feed. Setting the jokes aside, we all experience time in our own unique way. To understand our experience of time better, let’s look at what time really is. Two facets of time There are two aspects of time – chronos and kairos. While the former structures time into minutes, days and weeks, the latter represents qualitative experiences in a given moment. Our speaker Chris Dancy has measured both. Dancy admits that getting the data on chronoception is not hard. All you need to do is turn on your tracking decides and get your data logged right into your Google calendar. But how do you measure and score feelings? Dancy uses DIKW pyramid to describe kairos. Pieces of data combined create information, information becomes knowledge, knowledge becomes wisdom. Thus, to get high up the pyramid he started to combine data with photos he took in a moment the data was recorded. The photos revealed more about the feelings he had while doing certain things. …