Control Your Life 10 Minutes at a Time With 144 Blocks
As blogger Tim Urban writes in his book Wait But Why, your typical waking day lasts about 1,000 minutes . Urban loves to analyze his time by breaking it down, measuring human life in weeks, or counting how many times he sees his parents before they die . Yes, his thought experiments can get hard quickly. Its 1000 minutes calculation inspired 144blocks , a web-based tool for scheduling your time in 10-minute blocks.
A popular response from Metafilter readers and some Lifehacker staff was, “This sounds stressful!” This is what makes this exercise interesting. If your days are slipping away from you and your regular calendar is just another promise to break, this might be what you need to shock your system.
Or maybe you want to free yourself from the assumption that everything should start at one o’clock. You want to be one of those smart people who come to a restaurant ten minutes early . You want to end each meeting with the words, “I’ll give you your time back.” You know you can complete a two-hour project in 100 minutes if you strain. Take control of yourself and see how many minutes you can save.
144 blocks (via Metafilter )