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The soothing zen feeling of not being on anyone else's schedule :) Maker Time is for people who build things, and building things requires decently long period

The soothing zen feeling of not being on anyone else's schedule :) Maker Time is for people who build things, and building things requires decently long periods of focused time without interruptions. But it also reminds you that time is passing and that you can not waste it. It's the perfect clock for startup founders on the hack on product, eat, exercise and sleep lifestyle in an early stage company.

pavel_lishin 10y ago
Can't I just hide my clock, then? It's also weird if you start hacking at 2, and wake up the next day and start hacking at 1095. Or 1098.
- willholloway 10y ago
  Yes but it is helpful for tax purposes! The clock switching from 2 to 1095 means that: You have survived another rotation of the earth around the sun and It's time to close last years books and open a new set and deduct your business expenses against the new
  - pavel_lishin 10y ago
    But... going from 2016 to 2017 does the same thing.
theoh 10y ago
Nobody wants to be a slave to someone else's schedule, but let's not elevate "makers" above all the other valuable and productive human roles.
noxToken 10y ago
This sounds like a lot of headache for very little gain. Now you have two calendars to keep track of (because let's be real, this won't gain widespread adoption) that gives you less information than the Gregorian calendar. Clocks count upwards precisely because time is infinite. When you count down, you're counting towards a finite point. The Gregorian calendar is already based on meaningful celestial events - a complete orbit around the sun and a complete earth rotation. And just like Maker Time, it resets every year. Yes, you get this feeling of workable time periods, but we already get this with clocks. And with Maker Time, your periods are pre-defined: 12-8, 8-16, 8-24. if you work from 9-17 (like many people), Maker Time already encroaches upon two different periods. Lastly, you can't realistically schedule anything, because an 8 hour window is too large to coordinate. It's a good attempt. I'm not just commenting to crap all over Maker Time, but it solves a non-problem.
- willholloway 10y ago
  Everything you say is true. But it is also true that I like it and find value in it. I like to see a numerical representation of how much time is left in a year, as a year is an important tax construct. If you look into the French Revolutions attempts to fit the 24 hour day and the 12 month year into units of 10, decimal time, they were much more unwieldy.

pavel_lishin 10y ago

Can't I just hide my clock, then? It's also weird if you start hacking at 2, and wake up the next day and start hacking at 1095. Or 1098.

willholloway 10y ago
Yes but it is helpful for tax purposes! The clock switching from 2 to 1095 means that: You have survived another rotation of the earth around the sun and It's time to close last years books and open a new set and deduct your business expenses against the new
- pavel_lishin 10y ago
  But... going from 2016 to 2017 does the same thing.

theoh 10y ago

Nobody wants to be a slave to someone else's schedule, but let's not elevate "makers" above all the other valuable and productive human roles.

noxToken 10y ago

This sounds like a lot of headache for very little gain. Now you have two calendars to keep track of (because let's be real, this won't gain widespread adoption) that gives you less information than the Gregorian calendar. Clocks count upwards precisely because time is infinite. When you count down, you're counting towards a finite point. The Gregorian calendar is already based on meaningful celestial events - a complete orbit around the sun and a complete earth rotation. And just like Maker Time, it resets every year. Yes, you get this feeling of workable time periods, but we already get this with clocks. And with Maker Time, your periods are pre-defined: 12-8, 8-16, 8-24. if you work from 9-17 (like many people), Maker Time already encroaches upon two different periods. Lastly, you can't realistically schedule anything, because an 8 hour window is too large to coordinate. It's a good attempt. I'm not just commenting to crap all over Maker Time, but it solves a non-problem.

willholloway 10y ago
Everything you say is true. But it is also true that I like it and find value in it. I like to see a numerical representation of how much time is left in a year, as a year is an important tax construct. If you look into the French Revolutions attempts to fit the 24 hour day and the 12 month year into units of 10, decimal time, they were much more unwieldy.