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10 Minutes is ~1% of your day

taylor.town

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Yea, for a ~16h day.

I think more importantly, ~5min is 1% of your WORK day, assuming 8h.

So, think about those meetings that waste 12-18% of the day.

This feels like the no-attention span edition of Tim Urban's "The Tail End"[0], (which in turn is arguably just "memento mori" for the quantified self-crowd). Based on some the other reactions here guess it doesn't really have the same ability to enlighten in short form.

Anyway, I just came back from a trip to Stockholm to get some papers in order at the embassy, and the experience feels weirdly relevant. Because one thing I always am overwhelmed by when I visit it, is just how long it takes to get from anywhere to anywhere. So much time of the day is wasted on commuting, not just for work, but for everything. It feels like one of those games that people say is great, but then once you play it it's just 90% loading screens.

No wonder the Swedes don't have a culture of spontaneously visiting friends, you need to plan advance to make sure that they're home or you risk wasting two hours of your day.

[0] https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

Reminds me of LA

Wait But Why blog has a blog post [1] related to this that gives more food for thought about how we spend our everyday.

[1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/10/100-blocks-day.html

The emojis make a lot more sense if you assume that all the time spent playing with the phone is time spent on the toilet.

anyone here tracks those kind of blocks each day in a good way?

I like this stochastic way, but it's not really user friendly https://messymatters.com/tagtime/

What's the point here? 10 minutes is about 1% of your waking time assuming you sleep 8 hours. Thanks for doing the math I guess

Its a reminder that you're in charge of layout out your day

I think sometimes we underestimate how impactful 10 minutes can be. Imagine sitting in a call, waiting for folks who are late to join the meeting, or that's five 2 minute video ads on YouTube - Google is taking 1% of your day in ads.

It's just someone promoting a personal site, as is the rest of their posts

I think it increases the perceived value of 10 minutes, especially when looking at the visual representation.

Once you account for your own non-negotiable slots it may well be 5 or even 10 percent of your (available) day.

I don't get the same effect when looking at an agenda planner as the typical day to day items are not present. There seems to be time to fill on calendars, the opposite here.

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