Digital calendars are not designed to help us respect people’s time. They'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/

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

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