Do you remember the article "How 30 days without social networks changed my life" by Stephen Corona @stevencorona, co-founder of the popular TwitPic service? He continues his search and now refuses time. Time is something obvious that is given to us by our culture. But we are not a crowd and we like to audit everything that is given as a given - corporate life, religion, tools of work, the work itself ... Now is the time of the time. Do we need it?

Life without a clock or why giving up time is a blessing

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Time. As soon as we divide it into minutes, hours and days, it becomes so insignificant that it seems not to exist at all. Time is like a reality that we subscribe to. It exists only because we agreed to accept it. On the other hand, time is inexorably moving forward. Infinitely. Inexorably, if we consider it divided into years, decades and centuries.

It is interesting that the most insignificant units of time are at the same time the most stressful for us. I'm sick of it.

I unsubscribed from the watch

I threw my wristwatch in the trash. Disconnected or taped the clock on all the appliances in his house. It seems that today there is a clock on everything that a person only comes up with — a microwave oven, an oven, a VCR. What about the clock on my PC screen? Removed it. On iPhone (there is no regular way to remove the watch) I changed the time zone to an arbitrary one and the clock stopped showing adequate time.

The result was not long in coming. The first days were unusual. I've been working on my laptop all day, immersed in my work on products. I had no idea what time it was — 11:00 or 19:00. And I didn't give a damn about it, and it was amazing! I allowed myself to go completely into the project so that no hours distracted me.

I have learned to understand the solar time — I look out the window now and realize that it's time to stop working today. I have tested myself, and I am quite accurate, even taking into account the change of seasons.

After 3 months

So I got freedom, which I began to appreciate even more after three months. My stress has decreased. I don't worry about doing this or that activity for a long time, and I also don't think about how long I should do anything.

I am no longer chained to the clock. I measure my life by heartbeats and years, the only units that mean anything to me.