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Selected References:

• 3:00 - Emerson: The Mind on Fire by Robert D. Richardson
• 7:32 - Listen to Mindscape Episode 300 - Solo: Does Time Exist? from January, 2025
• 7:36 - From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll
• 7:38 - The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
• 12:58 - Read Nature and Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 20:28 - “Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in ten years” is an idea popularized most recently by Bill Gates and sometimes referred to as Gates’ Law.
• 21:42 - Derek Jeter played in 20 major league seasons starting in 1995 and retiring after the 2014 season
• Listen to Beautiful Illusions Episode 37 - Memento Mori from February, 2025
• 26:05 - Rickey Henderson played in 25 major league seasons from 1979 to 2003. He passed away on December 20, 2004 and is remembered as one of the greatest baseball players who ever lived. See “Rickey Henderson, 'greatest of all time,' dies at 65” (ESPN.com)
• 29:34 - Read “The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We’re All Going To Miss Almost Everything” by Linda Holmes (NPR, 2011)
• 31:10 - See the “Great American Novel” Wikipedia entry
• 32:51 - Listen to the “Songs About Time” Spotify playlist
• 36:05 - See “What Is Memento Mori?” (Daily Stoic)
• 38:45 - The 2006 Adam Sandler movie Click is about “a workaholic architect [who] finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.”
• 40:40 - See “Eternal Recurrence: What Did Nietzsche Really Mean?” (Philosophy Break) and “The Eternal Return: Nietzsche’s Brilliant Thought Experiment Illustrating the Key to Existential Contentment” from The Marginalian
• 46:14 - Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution by Carlo Rovelli
• 56:22 - Listen to Richard Feynman’s “Ode To A Flower” (YouTube)
• 57:03 - See the “Deep time” Wikipedia entry and the Deep Time: A History of the Earth interactive infographic

This episode was recorded in February 2025

The “Beautiful Illusions Theme” was performed by Darron Vigliotti (guitar) and Joseph Vigliotti (drums), and was written and recorded by Darron Vigliotti