Our lives are a never-ending stream of decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork. Pink reveals how to use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule, and the ideal time to quit a job, switch careers, or get married. He distills cutting-edge research and data on timing into a fascinating, readable narrative that gives readers compelling...

"From Ari Wallach, futurist, writer, and founder of Longpath Labs, comes a ... book on changing our mindsets from short-term, reactionary thinking to long-term, holistic thinking to becoming the ancestors our future needs"--

Twelve essays by the distinguished analyst Marie-Louise von Franz--five of them appearing in English for the first time--discuss synchronicity, number and time, and contemporary areas of rapprochement between the natural sciences and analytical psychology with regard to the relationship between mind and matter. This last question is among the most crucial today for fields as varied as microphysics, psychosomatic medicine, biology, quantum physics,...

Build Applications, Websites, and Software Solutions that Feel Faster, More Efficient, and More Considerate of Users' Time! One hidden factor powerfully influences the way users react to your software, hardware, User Interfaces (UI), or web applications: how those systems utilize users' time . Now, drawing on the nearly 40 years of human computer interaction research-including his own pioneering work-Dr. Steven Seow presents state-of-the-art best...

"Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have enough of the one thing we crave the most. How have we come to be dominated by something so arbitrary? The compelling stories in this book explore our obsessions with time. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his...