Volume 2 · The Discipline of Hours · Essay 170

Nobel Prize Winners' Productivity

You may not know the name Nobel Prize Winners' Productivity, but you know the thing. This page only introduces the two of you formally.

Strip it to the floor and you find an old instruction: look carefully, judge slowly, act decently. The new name exists because the old instruction keeps being forgotten.

Every January, the gym fills; by March, the regulars have the place to themselves again. The calendar changed nothing. The people who stayed simply stopped asking the calendar for permission.

Time is the one currency the Reserve Bank does not print more of. Print it on a card if you like. Better: print it on a habit.