Wasting time

Our sense of time can be manipulated. The essay uses "curvilinear" to describe media feeds that are active, without an end, and which include a mild variety--feeds that require no decision. Feeds with an end, feeds with nothing close to your interests--these evoke decisions. When we don't need to make decisions, time can slide by. And when there's no narrative, we tend tolose track of what has happened--forget the details, and how much time has passed.

Perhaps it isn't obvious, but links can eat time similarly to video feeds. The stories or essays may be longer and demand more of our minds, but you can binge anyway--and lose track of time. Been there.