The Blog.
Essays and short guides on living a 168-hour week. Weekly when we have something honest to say, never on a schedule.
Who 168 is for (and who it isn't)
A friend told me logging time was too much work. He was right — for him. The friction is the filter, and it's load-bearing.
Time budgeting vs money budgeting
You can budget time the same way you budget money. You just don't get to make the same kind of mistakes.
How to recover from burnout (measure, don't optimize)
Most burnout advice asks you to do more — better sleep, better routines, sharper systems. The honest first step is to count what you're actually spending.
Money is renewable. Time isn't.
We built a whole industry to count our dollars. We barely count our hours. The asymmetry is backwards.
On the budget of time
On stopwatches, wallets, and the difference between watching a week and writing one.
How many hours are in a week?
168 hours. Here's where they go, and why most of us never see them as a budget.
What is a time-budget app?
A time-budget app treats your week like money. You allocate hours before you spend them, log what you actually did, and read a receipt.
How to budget your time like money
The same five steps that work for a household budget work for the week. Allocate, log, review, adjust, repeat.
Time tracking without streaks (and why streaks backfire)
Streaks are good at habit-forming and bad at honesty. Here's how to track time without them — and why most reflective people prefer it.