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We've only had personal clock time for about 150-200 years and before then it was church bell local time and before that it was sun time. Biological time is inexact, noisy but robust. Even atomic time is relative time, atoms vibrating relative to our heart beat. I think time with too many hard edges and straight lines is damaging, like trying to constrain a tree to a concrete hole in the road. Also our brains can only hold 3-5 things in them at any one time, so a day with 3-4 parts is perfect.

(My Better Call Saul theory is that Kim's departure isn't anything to do with Fring or Mike but is a result of her pushing Howard too far. The series has a brilliant way of making small seemingly inconsequential choices add up and there have been a few active ones by Kim. But hurray, Lalo is still going and he's more politely angry than ever.)

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Love the thoughts about the clock. As expected, I totally agree :)

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On Better Call Saul, I am trying to think if there is anyone in Breaking Bad who Saul has a particularly tetchy, reasons unexplained, relationship with that they could backstory into BCS. I don't want to go back and watch it all again, but IIRC, when Walter White needs something super dodgy doing, Mike is introduced to the show with Saul saying he "might know someone who knows someone"... I guess we have to wait and find out!

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Better Call Saul isn’t a show I’ve watched much of, but I did get the joke with his name, which made me laugh.

I can’t help wondering how many of the show’s viewers actually got it. 🤔🤷🏻‍♂️🤣

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Literally no-body. We watched goodness only knows how many seasons of him being Saul Goodman, and then one day, the writers just dropped it in "It's short for 'it's all good, man'", and everyone expressed with one voice "eh?, what?, omg!"

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Apr 25, 2022Liked by Ben Green

…which is the ideal name for a ‘fixer’. 😄

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It's KW 17. Not 16. Already! Four months of the year already gone by. I have changed the title here on the website, but obviously, can't change it in your emails. Sorry!

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