Nobel Prize and Atomised Time

Joel Mokyr’s Nobel

Anton Howes | Age Of Invention | 14th October 2025

In praise of this year’s Nobel winner in Economics. Mokyr wrote economic history accessible to laymen. He argued that the Industrial Revolution was rooted not in material factors but in ideas and the accumulation of knowledge, a hard case to make to economists who tend to gravitate towards data. Many inventions, in his view, could not be predicted by economic factors — like Montgolfier’s hot air balloon (1,100 words)

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Design For Lingering

Sean Voisen | 13th October 2025

Modern life has “atomised” time, “breaking it down into smaller and smaller disjointed increments” with “no overall narrative continuity”. This creates a collective perception that “everything is somehow speeding up”. The antidote is a “willingness to linger”. Use a slow-burning incense to measure time. This “fragrant time does not flow or trickle away”; instead of emptying out, its smell fills the room (2,400 words)