[HN Gopher] Tzero: Social Timeboxing for IRC Channels
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       Tzero: Social Timeboxing for IRC Channels
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2024-08-03 12:24 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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       | susam wrote:
       | Hello! Thank you for sharing this project here! We have a small
       | community of users who have been using this tool regularly over
       | the last few weeks. Here are the current stats from this tool:
       | 2024-08-03 13:50 +0000 <susam> ,summary       2024-08-03 13:50
       | +0000 <t0> I have run 28 timeboxes across all channels, totalling
       | 855 minutes.  The average length of each timebox is 31 minutes.
       | 
       | If you want to try this out, you are very welcome to /join
       | #bitwise on Libera or /join #bitwise:matrix.org on Matrix. Web
       | interface links for both places:
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       | * https://web.libera.chat/#bitwise
       | 
       | * https://app.element.io/#/room/#bitwise:matrix.org
       | 
       | You might find the second link more comfortable to use if you do
       | not use IRC regularly.
        
       | muixoozie wrote:
       | Is there a sort of Hawthorne effect [0] due to timeboxing where
       | others can observe?
       | 
       | [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
        
         | wildzzz wrote:
         | It's possible you might be less productive with showing off
         | your timeboxing to your IRC friends. Example: I have a free
         | afternoon after work one day (nothing critical needs to be
         | done). There's several things on my personal to-do list ranging
         | from important (like cleaning the house, doing laundry, paying
         | bills, etc) that eventually need to be done to less important
         | tasks (volunteering or working on a side project that could
         | eventually produce income or otherwise contribute positively to
         | my community) to leisure tasks (reading something new, video
         | games, managing my home media server, things that only impact
         | my happiness). If I'm sharing what I'm timeboxing with my
         | friends, I may be more inclined to do tasks that solely make
         | myself look better. Laundry isn't very sexy, taking a nap or a
         | walk around the neighborhood isn't that interesting, maybe that
         | side project is a little interesting but maybe only to you. But
         | maybe saying I'm going read a journal article about something
         | intellectual would make me look good. Or maybe I work on a side
         | project that has very little impact other than making me work
         | hard to understand a new topic that I don't particularly care
         | much about but my friends do. I may be avoiding more important
         | tasks that directly improve my living conditions or happiness
         | just to impress others. It's nerd bragging. Is practicing some
         | exercises from an esoteric number theory textbook really going
         | to improve my living condition or somehow make me a better web
         | developer? Probably not. If I'm not sharing that I'm doing it,
         | then I'm probably just doing it because I actually want to,
         | like doing a sudoku, it's a brain teaser. But if I am sharing
         | it, am I actually doing it because I want to or because I think
         | it will impress people?
         | 
         | It's like people that otherwise live a pretty humdrum life but
         | share every small exciting thing they do on Instagram to show
         | off to their friends. They go out of their way to experience
         | things not because they actually want to but because it makes a
         | good photo for the gram. They present themselves online as more
         | interesting than they really are to impress and make others
         | envious. It allows people to manufacture a personality for
         | themselves that wouldn't otherwise exist if they couldn't show
         | off. I love doing interesting things. I go to all kinds of
         | places and eat food I know my social circle wouldn't have the
         | opportunity to do so. But I don't share any of it online. I'll
         | tell a friend if I know they share the same interest but I'm
         | not bragging to everyone just to impress because I don't need
         | that validation to cover for the times I'm not doing anything
         | interesting.
        
       | myself248 wrote:
       | I just had to look up what timeboxing is. It's setting a fixed
       | deadline and allowing scope or quality to slip instead of
       | extending a timeline. Seems related to the Pomodoro technique of
       | working in fixed intervals with breaks in between?
        
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