<story><title>The town&apos;s so full of these confounded dials (195 BCE)</title><url>https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/time/hacked-days</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keithwhor</author><text>I love this. I remember reading an anecdote of Gates discussing his relationship with Buffet — there may be a video interview — where Gates was astounded at how empty Buffet’s calendar was.&lt;p&gt;As a founder, I’m more of a Buffet. I schedule time when and where necessary (which is, admittedly, most of my time most weeks) but I hate feeling as if I’m restricted to obeying numbers in a database in order to function.&lt;p&gt;It fills me with an inordinate amount of joy to imagine the simplicity of a world in which you’d only return home to eat. I think that’s how I operated as a kid in the summers, riding bikes and walking around town with friends until we needed to eat. I feel like those moments are underrated and very visceral, instinctual parts of the human experience.&lt;p&gt;Wild how only a few lines of prose from people that existed thousands of years before us can evoke these sorts of feelings.&lt;p&gt;[Edit] Apparently, this anecdote is very famous and very Google-able:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;warren-buffett-taught-bill-gates-about-time-management-by-sharing-his-blank-calendar.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;warren-buffett-taught-bill-g...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>To me a calendar is not a constraint. It&amp;#x27;s a god send. I don&amp;#x27;t feel trapped with all the things on my calendar: I chose to put them in there so I want to do them.&lt;p&gt;The reason I have a calendar is not to structure my life at all. It&amp;#x27;s just so I can forget all that stuff while I have no reason to think about it. Set it in the calendar, forget it. It will pop up in the morning, when I need it.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s so relaxing.</text></comment>
<story><title>The town&apos;s so full of these confounded dials (195 BCE)</title><url>https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/time/hacked-days</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keithwhor</author><text>I love this. I remember reading an anecdote of Gates discussing his relationship with Buffet — there may be a video interview — where Gates was astounded at how empty Buffet’s calendar was.&lt;p&gt;As a founder, I’m more of a Buffet. I schedule time when and where necessary (which is, admittedly, most of my time most weeks) but I hate feeling as if I’m restricted to obeying numbers in a database in order to function.&lt;p&gt;It fills me with an inordinate amount of joy to imagine the simplicity of a world in which you’d only return home to eat. I think that’s how I operated as a kid in the summers, riding bikes and walking around town with friends until we needed to eat. I feel like those moments are underrated and very visceral, instinctual parts of the human experience.&lt;p&gt;Wild how only a few lines of prose from people that existed thousands of years before us can evoke these sorts of feelings.&lt;p&gt;[Edit] Apparently, this anecdote is very famous and very Google-able:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;warren-buffett-taught-bill-gates-about-time-management-by-sharing-his-blank-calendar.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;warren-buffett-taught-bill-g...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehnto</author><text>&amp;gt; I think that’s how I operated as a kid in the summers, riding bikes and walking around town with friends until we needed to eat. I feel like those moments are underrated and very visceral, instinctual parts of the human experience.&lt;p&gt;This is exactly how I spent my youth, and I try to use how I felt those moments as a comparison for how engaged I with the real world at any point. If I find myself too decoupled from real life and too deep into work, I will extract myself by leaving the house without any devices or any place to be. I love those moments. I no longer carry a smartphone with me, just a standalone smartwatch for incoming calls, so that&amp;#x27;s actually made those moments to be any moment I&amp;#x27;m not at my desk.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s why travel, even local travel, is so important to me. I can live moment to moment, experiencing life in simple visceral terms. How do I feel right now, and what does that make me want to do? Well, let&amp;#x27;s do that then.</text></comment>