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| Flip flop, It's stood with me for twenty years. |
A recent phenomenon, ever since the dawn of industrialization and the measurement/standardization of time. Treating time as a commodity, a resource.
Advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages:
Structure and prioritization
With the evaluation of the other 24 hours, increases productivity of your projects.
Helps you transition from an amateur towards a professional.
Minimizes passing the times, maximizes spending the time.
Disadvantages:
Not all opportunities are worth it, in hindsight.
There is no slack, it makes you a dog.
Disrespects body physicality, it cannot understand the measurement of time reductionistically. So we pursue physical impossibility, making one flirt with Kuroshi; Death by overworking. Digging into our finite well of emotional labor. Our brain needs nourishment, not hypertrophy.
Parkinson's law: The work expands to fill the time as its completion. All those late nights may seem to enhance productivity, but not really!
How I handle it.
Have some activities that I don't measure the time. (Example being sleep, family, and walks in nature.)
I use the nebulous guidelines of 80-20% when bodybuilders use with nutritional value within the diet like I use my time (80% 'nutrionally dense foods' 20% with foods that I enjoy). Using the off-time to behave more professionally than before.