This column will take you five minutes, according to the New York Times website, which now posts an estimated reading time for articles on its home page.
You can easily finish it while waiting for your DoorDash, which will arrive in 12 minutes, shortly after your laundry cycle ends in — check the app — seven minutes.
You’ll stop to collect the DoorDash, which didn’t actually come in 12 minutes but instead materialized in 22, just as you’d settled into a Zoom meeting.
The laundry, on the other hand, will be ready in 12 minutes.
It is harder and harder to tell when we are in the middle of a thing and when the thing is definitively over.
Persons:
didn’t, Jenny Odell
Organizations:
New York Times
Locations:
Florida