Freelance and Billable Hours
Tracking for money has a different standard from tracking for insight, and the gap between hours worked and hours billable is the number that decides whether the work pay 3 min
At work
Where tracking pays directly: estimates, rates, and evidence for a conversation about workload.
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Estimating From Your Own Data
The most valuable thing a record produces: a reference class of comparable past work, which beats any estimate made by imagining the task. 4 min
Tracking for a Client Versus for Yourself
Two records with different purposes, different honesty and different audiences. Merging them degrades both. 3 min
When Your Employer Also Tracks You
Workplace monitoring and personal tracking overlap and are not the same activity. What changes when both are running, and what not to do. 3 min
Shared Calendars and Other People
Your time is partly allocated by people who cannot see what else you have. What a shared calendar shows, what it hides, and what to put in it. 3 min
Study and Learning Time
Tracking learning is different from tracking work: hours are a poor measure of progress, and the record is most useful for what it shows about conditions. 3 min