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I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

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Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

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Post by coldtea »

sunir wrote: post #57
Draiken wrote: post #49

I am always baffled how sad this extreme focus into productivity makes me. If you discovered you were going to die in a year, would you continue to spend all your time being "productive"? I figure almost everyone would shift all their focus on doing things that "really matter". Sadly I believe the world managed to make us feel guilty when we're not doing something that makes someone else rich (majority of jobs). I'm…

I think you have a very narrow understanding of what "productive" means. You can produce or make progress towards anything that you value. Making other people money is just one avenue. If you had a year to live, you would definitely want to be productive. There's a lot that needs to get done to wrap up your one single life well, so that your time on earth wasn't lost. Just getting your will and testament done, talkin…

>If you had a year to live, you would definitely want to be productive.

You'd be surprised.

That's more of rat-race-disease artifact, where a person is measured by their "achievements" and "success" (as opposed to being intristically worth).

Many people of many peoples would want to either relax, love and be with family, or enjoy themselves (and more likely a healthy combination of the two).

Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

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Post by chrisfosterelli »

theli0nheart wrote: post #83
chrisfosterelli wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From TFA: > I knew I was spending quite a lot of it on social media, but I wasn't sure how much exactly. I also knew I was working quite a lot and wanted to quantify exactly how much (spoiler alert: not that much). I hoped that keeping track of what I do would help me to identify chunks of time that were being wasted and to turn them into quality time. Tracking time doesn't inherently have to be to optimize for "maki…

> he specifically did this You got the wrong pronoun. "One gal's quest to optimise her life" is the blog's subtitle.

Ah thanks! My bad. Corrected.

Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

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Post by saberience »

guessmyname wrote: post #51

Great article. I have been doing the same for the last two years or so. I use Qbserve [1], a native (privacy-focused) time tracker for macOS developed by a couple living in Chile. The application keeps all the information on my computer in an SQLite database, making it very easy to analyze. I regularly reference it during my quarterly performance reviews to justify ups-and-downs in my results. I will use this article…

This comment depresses me so much. You track your own time obsessively and use it as a reference in performance reviews?

This sounds like a dystopian hell out of Big Brother.

Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

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Post by saberience »

xkeysc0re wrote: post #36

I am really really grateful I am not this kind of person. Not everything needs to be quantified and analyzed. I'm glad OP had fun with the exercise but this drive to amass data will only lead to human suffering and oppression down the line

Yeah, I saw the title of this blog post and it immediately depressed me. The idea of tracking my time minutely in some effort to be more efficient or "productive" seems to be the antithesis of being human.

Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

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Post by DecayingOrganic »

chrisfosterelli wrote: post #66
Draiken wrote: post #49

I am always baffled how sad this extreme focus into productivity makes me. If you discovered you were going to die in a year, would you continue to spend all your time being "productive"? I figure almost everyone would shift all their focus on doing things that "really matter". Sadly I believe the world managed to make us feel guilty when we're not doing something that makes someone else rich (majority of jobs). I'm…

From TFA: > I knew I was spending quite a lot of it on social media, but I wasn't sure how much exactly. I also knew I was working quite a lot and wanted to quantify exactly how much (spoiler alert: not that much). I hoped that keeping track of what I do would help me to identify chunks of time that were being wasted and to turn them into quality time. Tracking time doesn't inherently have to be to optimize for "maki…

I'll raise my head above the parapet and admit that I don't get it. How about just scheduling things? If you want to spend more time on things that matter, just pick a date and time, and get going.

That said, perhaps the alluring part was gathering data on one's self.

Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

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Post by reaperducer »

Draiken wrote: post #49

I am always baffled how sad this extreme focus into productivity makes me. If you discovered you were going to die in a year, would you continue to spend all your time being "productive"? I figure almost everyone would shift all their focus on doing things that "really matter". Sadly I believe the world managed to make us feel guilty when we're not doing something that makes someone else rich (majority of jobs). I'm…

I'm with you. If it took one minute to log each of the previous 14, I'd rather have 24 hours of my life back.

It's the same with social media.

Once I realized that spending two hours a day on social media meant I was giving up 30 days of my life each year for... what? So someone in SV can buy a second boat, or a third house?

I limit my social media to under 15 minutes a day now (including HN.) If the social ad tech companies want more than that, they can pay me.

Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

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Post by kzrdude »

tracyhenry wrote: post #88
barrucadu wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm manually noting down durations in timedot format ( https://hledger.org/hledger.html#timedot-format ) in a text file. For example, today's entry as of 18:32 is: 2021-01-03 leisure:anime ....................... leisure:social .. sleep 6.5h chores:foodprep . chores:regular . leisure:social ...... leisure:ttrpg:play .......... Each dot is 15 minutes, so I'm missing a bit of time today. Oh well. I think that having a…

The font of the entry looks different than normal texts. How is that done?

See https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc (from FAQ)
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