This comment is not specifically about time, but it's related to your mention of social infrastructure at the end. I had (pretty naively) assumed that I somehow had a uniquely weird life that leaves me having, for example, only three people on my block that I've ever talked to (none of whom I am likely to talk to in the average month) (though as I write this, I'm wondering if the number being as high as three actually means I should consider myself lucky). It's very interesting to me to consider that my own seemingly unique-to-me circumstances might actually be quite similar in many respects to those of my neighbours.
This comment is not specifically about time, but it's related to your mention of social infrastructure at the end. I had (pretty naively) assumed that I somehow had a uniquely weird life that leaves me having, for example, only three people on my block that I've ever talked to (none of whom I am likely to talk to in the average month) (though as I write this, I'm wondering if the number being as high as three actually means I should consider myself lucky). It's very interesting to me to consider that my own seemingly unique-to-me circumstances might actually be quite similar in many respects to those of my neighbours.