- The GoldenEye Principle: Flow, Dopamine, Spirituality and How to Make Everything As Fun as Video Games and Multiplayer Bedroom Sports
- How Zombie Gunship Taught Me All I Need to Know To Make My Real Life Awesome (And So Can You!): Gamifying Real Life For Fun and Profit and (Almost) For Free Using the Awesome New Technique of Randomized Timeboxing
- OMG: A Public Service Announcement from Captain Obvious
- All I Ever Needed to Know in Life, I Learned from Cloud Storage
- More Timeboxing Insights: Ramp Scaling and Polar Switching
- Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 1: What Is Timeboxing, Why Does It Work, And Why Should You Care?
- Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 2: Nested Timeboxing
- Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 3: Dual Timeboxing
- Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 3.5: Timeboxing Turns Work Into Play
- Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 4: Decremental Timeboxing
- Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 5: Incremental Timeboxing and Mixed Timeboxing
- My (Current) Timeboxing Tools: Hardware Timers
- Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 6: Q&A
- Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 7: Isn’t Timeboxing Just A Waste of Time?
- Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 8: Don’t Those Super-Short Timeboxes Make Timeboxing Meaningless?
- Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 9: Birthlines And Timeboxing
- Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 10: Timeboxing, Tony Schwartz and Recovery
- Decremental Timebox → Real Time Conversion Table
- Can Timeboxing Help Me Do Really Big, Hard Things?
- Three Minutes Of…
- Nothing Is Hard
- How To Get Nothing Done: The Art and Science of Wresting Defeat From the Jaws of Victory
- How to Make Miracles Happen and Get Called a Genetically Gifted Genius
- Remember That You Are, Were and Will Always Be Human: Infinite in Possibility and Finite in Action
- Why America Doesn’t Win Wars Any More and What (Ironically) That Can Teach You About Learning Languages
- The One True Secret to Being Happy, Productive and Sane Forever
- How (and Why) to Make and Use Entropy Bombs
For your referential pleasure, I made this little conversion table. That time sure adds up!
Decremental Timebox → Real (=Full) Time Conversion Table
(Key assumption: 1 minute decrement, so 4 minutes → 4 minutes + 3 minutes + 2 minutes + 1 minute)
- 1 minute → 1 minute
- 2 minutes → 3 minutes
- 3 minutes → 6 minutes
- 4 minutes → 10 minutes
- 5 minutes → 15 minutes
- 6 minutes → 21 minutes
- 7 minutes → 28 minutes ~ 1/2 hour
- 8 minutes → 36 minutes
- 9 minutes → 45 minutes
- 10 minutes → 55 minutes ~ 1 hour
- 11 minutes → 66 minutes ~ 1 hour
- 12 minutes → 78 minutes
- 13 minutes → 91 minutes ~ 1.5 hours
- 14 minutes → 105 minutes
- 15 minutes → 120 minutes = 2 hours
- 16 minutes → 136 minutes
- 17 minutes → 153 minutes
- 18 minutes → 171 minutes ~ 3 hours
- 19 minutes → 190 minutes
- 20 minutes → 210 minutes ~ 3.5 hours
- 21 minutes → 231 minutes ~ 4 hours
- 22 minutes → 253 minutes ~ 4.25 hours
- 24 minutes → 300 minutes = 5 hours
- 25 minutes→ 325 minutes ~ 5.5 hours
- 26 minutes → 351 minutes ~ 6 hours
- 30 minutes → 465 minutes = 7.75 hours ~ 8 hours
That’s really amazing actually. Kind of like… multi-core processing logic for getting things done… but in a more linear way.
huh yeah I never looked at it that way. I didn’t have much success when I tried doing incremental timeboxing last time, but maybe I’ll give it another shot.
Can anyone plz tell me why 55 minutes becomes 1 hour?
Rounding, and to account for manual reset of the timer (if you’re using Anki, it can’t auto-decrement).