Trace the Work. Calendars Are Not a Log.
Rahul Vohra found 6-7% of his week on craft work a calendar would never have shown. A calendar is intention. A switch log is the trail. Microsoft telemetry explains the gap, and memory is not a backup.
Time Tracking
Why You Cannot Categorize Time From Memory
Reconstructing how you spent a week from memory or a calendar fails. Sam Corcos logged 17,784 hours and still would have put recruiting at 20% instead of 3%. Contemporaneous logs plus a small category set is the practice.
Dogfooding DoneThat: AI Watched My Screen for A Year
What happens when an AI tracks your screen every 5 minutes for a year? Data-driven productivity insights from 1,585 hours of solofounder work.
You should probably track your time (and it just got easier)
Most people in EA know they should track their time but don't, because existing tools are either too much work or not accurate enough. Here's why it's worth doing and a new AI-powered option that fixes both.