Digital calendars are not designed to help us respect people’s time. They& #39;re empty by default, which means people are always ‘putting’ time on your calendar, never ‘taking it off.’

It’s all backwards! I dug into this problem and designed a few solutions https://aaronzlewis.com/blog/2019/02/11/fools-and-their-time-metaphors/">https://aaronzlewis.com/blog/2019...

i love that Clockwise is thinking more creatively about how to design time, but i still feel like it’s building on a fundamentally broken metaphor:

your time is displayed as empty frontier land by default, which means people feel free to trespass on it https://twitter.com/nbashaw/status/1140732442854080513?s=21">https://twitter.com/nbashaw/s...

the metaphor “time is a container that must be filled” has a surprising number of toxic side effects, outside of just scheduling craziness @ work

e.g. @noUpside says our current media mess was created in part by this need to “fill time” 24/7. no emptiness or silence allowed

in order to meet the demand to fill every last second of airtime, the media manufactures “pseudo-events” —

meaningless fluff stories that keep the ad engine running, distracting and confusing us all in the process