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If you’ve ever read a hospital chart or checked the manifest of a plane, you’re familiar with military time. It’s a series of four digits … Read More

When you’re looking at a log file and see that a request took 250 milliseconds, that’s a blink of an eye to a casual observer. … Read More

Then it’s February 29th and you’ve started a new job. The handbook says how long you’ll be on probation: precisely one year. Next February 29th … Read More

The calendar software shrugs. “Sure,” it says, “you can add one month to January thirty-first.” And then it hands you February twenty-eighth, or perhaps February … Read More

Here is a good example: how do you know if two weeks is a tight deadline? Is it generous? Generous or not depends entirely on … Read More

That’s why when you draw up a plan that appears reasonable on paper, like “I’ll get this thing done in five days”, the ticking clock … Read More

Computers speak in raw seconds. They are precise. They is indifferent to the way we as humans experience time. To the untrained eye, a video … Read More

The world’s spreadsheet is filled with rigid time. In your head, it’s all fluid. A video clip is three frames too long. A meeting ran … Read More

There are 60 minutes in an hour. Easy stuff right? But what happen when you want to break your hour down further for scheduling or … Read More

This is the story of planning to do some high-intensity training or some deep work, blocking off an hour for it, and then vowing to … Read More