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Reformatting Time

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Reformatting Time A proposal for a universal, secular, and intentional calendar — the Ideal Calendar What if the problem wasn't how we fill our time, but how we divide it? That's the question behind the Ideal Calendar — a complete redesign of the calendar, grounded in light, real astronomy, and a philosophy of the week. Every great civilizational shift has wanted its own calendar. The French Revolution with its republican calendar. The USSR with its five-day week designed to break the Christian Sunday. The Islamic Republic of Iran counting from the Hegira. A calendar is never neutral. It encodes who decides when we work, when we rest, what we celebrate, whom we honor. The Ideal Calendar does the same thing, but in reverse: it de-ideologizes. It celebrates no one — no Caesar, no Augustus, no saints, no emperors. It celebrates phenomena. Light. The earth. Time passing. The Structure: Simple, Symmetrical, Solid The core principle is almost brutally clear: ...
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Reformater le temps

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Reformater le temps Une proposition de calendrier universel, laïque et intentionnel — le Calendrier Idéal Et si le problème n'était pas comment on occupe notre temps, mais comment on le découpe ? Voilà la question derrière le Calendrier Idéal — un projet de refonte complète du calendrier, fondé sur la lumière, l'astronomie réelle, et une philosophie de la semaine. Tous les grands bouleversements civilisationnels ont voulu leur propre calendrier. La Révolution française avec son calendrier républicain. L'URSS avec sa semaine de cinq jours pour casser le dimanche chrétien. La République islamique d'Iran qui compte depuis l'Hégire. Le calendrier n'est jamais neutre. Il encode qui décide quand on travaille, quand on se repose, ce qu'on célèbre, à qui on rend hommage. Le Calendrier Idéal fait la même chose, mais dans le sens inverse : il désidéologise. Il ne célèbre personne — ni César, ni Auguste, ni saints, ni empereurs. Il célèbre des phén...
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Age gap rule

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The Age Gap Rule: A Mathematician's Take on Who You Can Date Or: how I spent an afternoon turning relationship norms into exponential functions Everyone knows the old "half your age plus seven" rule. It's been around forever, quoted at dinner tables, cited in arguments, and used to justify some questionable life choices. But here's the thing nobody talks about: it only gives you a minimum. What about the maximum? And what happens when humanity eventually figures out how to live to 500? I couldn't let these questions go unanswered. So I built the math. The Problem with the Classic Rule "Half your age plus seven" is elegant in its simplicity. At 30, your minimum is 22. At 40, it's 27. Clean, intuitive, widely accepted. But it's incomplete. If the minimum age for a 30-year-old is 22, then logically, the maximum age for a 22-year-old should be 30. That's what symmetry means: if A can date B, then B can date A. The clas...
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About this bizarre bazaar

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 Thoughts and experiences.  Claude helps. And sometimes Gemini does too,...
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