A Measure of Sacrifice

Admin on 27/06/2020

By the late 13th century western Europeans had developed a new culture.   They possessed a unique combination of the craft skills to make clocks, and more importantly, growing use of relationships that benefited from more precise coordination in time.   Almost simultaneously, again uniquely, in the late 13th or early 14th century these Europeans started making and using two very different kinds of clocks – the mechanical clock and the sandglass.  The technology of the mechanical clock was independent of that of the sandglass, but they played complementary roles in their function. As a result they appeared and were widely used at the same time and place in history. – Nick Szsbo

Inspecting and adapting my work schedule

Admin on 12/08/2018

I have a dashboard that tracks my time spent on the various pieces of work.

My time spent dashboard

It allows me to ‘inspect and adapt’,  to question whether I’m spending my time on the things that return the most value, to think about how to fit future work in, and look for areas of work to not do.

I’d really like to find a way to pull the data from my Outlook calendar rather than having to manually enter it into a spreadsheet every week, but for the time being the dashboard is useful enough to commit the time to updating it.