Writing about time, and what it costs
Mostly about scheduling, occasionally about the engineering underneath it, and now and then about what we have decided not to build.
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Ideas
May 28, 2027
6 min read
What it actually costs to find a time
Four emails, two days, and a meeting that ends up in the wrong hour anyway. We measured the thing everybody assumes is free.
Rowan Adeyemi
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Practice
May 12, 2027
4 min read
Buffers are not a nice-to-have
Back-to-back calls do not save time. They move the cost somewhere you cannot see it, and then charge interest.
Noor Vandel
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Engineering
April 24, 2027
7 min read
Time zones are a user interface problem
The maths is easy and has been solved for decades. What goes wrong is the sentence you write in the email.
Kit Farrow
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Product
April 3, 2027
5 min read
What we have decided not to build
A short list, kept publicly, of the features we keep being asked for and keep saying no to — and why.
Sasha Nkemelu
Stop arranging, start meeting
Free for one person, forever. Two minutes to connect a calendar, and the next meeting arranges itself.
No card, no trial clock, nothing to cancel.