Hi Branden & Larry,
G. Branden Robinson wrote on Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 10:34:50PM -0500:
> Larry Kollar wrote:
>> [1] How the **** did 20 years go by that fast?
> The size of size of a year's worth of experience or memories is that a
> person perceives is, other things equal, a logarithmic function of their
> age. When your're 10 years old, 5 years was half your lifetime ago:
> "forever". When your're 50, 5 years was only 10% of your lifetime
> ago--a tangible, but only relatively a short while back.
I think there are at least three additional effects exacerbating
what you are saying:
1. On average, younger minds and bodies work faster than older ones,
so the same amount of physical time keeps getting neurologically
and biologically shorter.
2. On average, younger minds and bodies have more endurance
than older ones, so the time one can work before getting tired
and needing rest keeps getting shorter, and the fraction of
each day that can be used for intense work keeps diminishing.
3. With life experience, awareness tends to grow of all the things
that would be worth doing - both worth doing for *someone* for the
benefit of humanity (or even the planet) as a whole and also worth
doing for your own personal benefit and your friends and family.
While a child is often completely focussed on what they are doing
or want to do *right now*, the capacity for viewing situations
and activities in a broader context grows with experience - which
also makes time feel shorter relative to the need for time.
To get back on topic, yes, i do occasionally use groff_mm(7).
It seems especially useful for presentation slides.
Yours,
Ingo
