Clocks get it wrong because they count up, but one day we will all die, so from our perspective time is counting down.
I started thinking about alternative calendar systems when I learned about Post-Revolutionary France's attempt at introducing metric time.
The problem with dividing the year by 1000 is 1000 is divorced from astronomical reality of life on earth. Swatch internet time is the latest attempt at this but I think it misses the mark.
I wanted a time keeping system that matched up with our cosmic reality and the reality of making things vs managing people. We have two important events, the year (one rotation of the earth around the sun) and the day (one rotation of the earth). The moon's cycle is only important for tides (and it's close in duration to the female menstral cycle)
Maker time divides the year into 1095 (or 1098 in a leap year) blocks. Each block is 8 hours. On January 1st the count resets.
This way I don't have to look at the clock and feel the stress it engenders, but also I get to mark the passage of time.
There are 82 maker time blocks left this year and I have big plans for those 82 remaining blocks of time. And one 8 hour block for sleep per day is productive time, thats when my brain encodes the things I learned into long term memory.
Stuff like this is why I still love HN, for all its flaws. :)
This is pretty interesting - I'm going to start checking Maker Time regularly, and see if my perspective on things changes. One's perception of the passage of time surely has an uncommonly high influence on important psychological factors like motivation and focus, and we've been using pretty much the same division of time for hundreds of years, so there are probably efficiency gains to be made with stuff like this.
Clocks get it wrong because they count up, but one day we will all die, so from our perspective time is counting down.
I started thinking about alternative calendar systems when I learned about Post-Revolutionary France's attempt at introducing metric time.
The problem with dividing the year by 1000 is 1000 is divorced from astronomical reality of life on earth. Swatch internet time is the latest attempt at this but I think it misses the mark.
I wanted a time keeping system that matched up with our cosmic reality and the reality of making things vs managing people. We have two important events, the year (one rotation of the earth around the sun) and the day (one rotation of the earth). The moon's cycle is only important for tides (and it's close in duration to the female menstral cycle)
Maker time divides the year into 1095 (or 1098 in a leap year) blocks. Each block is 8 hours. On January 1st the count resets.
This way I don't have to look at the clock and feel the stress it engenders, but also I get to mark the passage of time.
There are 82 maker time blocks left this year and I have big plans for those 82 remaining blocks of time. And one 8 hour block for sleep per day is productive time, thats when my brain encodes the things I learned into long term memory.