Unpaid Work and Care
The largest category in many people's weeks, absent from most tracking tools, and the one where measurement serves a different purpose entirely. 4 min
Beyond work
The largest category in many weeks is absent from every tracking product, and some things should not be measured at all.
5 notes · about 18 min in total
Rest Is Not Residue
What is left after everything else has taken its share. Tracking shows how little that is, and the response most people reach for makes it worse. 3 min
Hobbies and the Trap of Optimising Them
Applying tracking to things done for their own sake reliably damages them, and the mechanism is well enough understood to be worth avoiding deliberately. 3 min
Long Projects and Slow Progress
Work measured in months rather than hours, where weekly totals mean nothing and the useful record is of a different kind entirely. 4 min
Health, Sleep and the Limits of Self-Data
Where time data meets health data, what the one measurement with clear evidence is, and where self-tracking stops being useful and needs a professional. 4 min