- 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
- Three Minutes Of…
- 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
- Decremental Timebox → Real Time Conversion Table
- Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 10: Timeboxing, Tony Schwartz and Recovery
- Can Timeboxing Help Me Do Really Big, Hard Things?
- Protected: 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
- Nothing Is Hard
- Protected: All I Ever Needed to Know in Life, I Learned from Cloud Storage
- Protected: Don’t Be The Kaiser or the Fuhrer
- Protected: The Timebox Is Smarter Than You
- How To Get Nothing Done: The Art and Science of Wresting Defeat From the Jaws of Victory
- Protected: More Timeboxing Insights: Ramp Scaling and Polar Switching
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
In real life, you’ll actually want a decremental timebox (or…series of decremental series of timeboxes or…decremental series of timeboxes…depending on how you wanna look at it) that adds up to slightly less than the “full real time. So, a 10-minute series would work best if you have 1 hour of real time. Why? Because you’re going to accumulate some time loss every time you get up to reset the timer — if you do your resets manually, that is.
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).