Wednesday, August 5, 2026

WEDNESDAY — PERSPECTIVE & PRACTICE

“Conceptions of even such fundamental domains as time can differ dramatically across cultures.”

— Lera Boroditsky & Alice Gaby

Every deadline assumes time is a substance you can spend, save, or run out of. Researchers working in the Aboriginal community of Pormpuraaw found something else: a people who arrange past and future by cardinal direction, east to west, regardless of which way they were facing. The frame was never in the clock which raises a quieter question about your own calendar: What does your default frame make invisible? To learn more, Check out the article Anthropology Says Human Languages That Contain No Word for Time Exist – and the People Who Speak Them Remember the Past in a Way That Differs Measurably From Everyone Else.

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Stay safe. Stay healthy. Be strong. Lead well.

Chad