Should we be tracking time obsessively?

Stub • 161 Words • Calendars • 02/01/2024

⚠️ This post contains a rougher cut of my thoughts on the topic and may be updated in the future. Please forgive any mistakes or lack of polish!

Being attuned to time so sensitively seems bad, so should I be tracking time?

  • being more aware of time makes you realize how little you have which can cause anxiety
  • it makes you watch the clock more
    • in tracking my time on my calendar, it would affect the time i would start tasks because it wouldn’t as cleanly display/input into the calendar

How can we balance calendar as memory with not being as time obsessed?

  • We can try to create a calendar with no duration
  • “Quiet tracking”
    • Tracking in the background that is automated so that it’s non-invasive (ish)–out of sight and mind

Instead of YouTube and Spotify watch/listen time, focus more on last.fm-esque metrics which is more about number of songs listened to

  • what if we removed all the references to time in YouTube?
    • The play bar would still be there so you have a proportionality idea of the time, but we would move timestamps and other time related things.

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