Yes, you have finite time and it's just simply so easy to squander them, playing games, social media, clicking around on youtube, etc. I'm sure many of us do it more than we would like and taking back that control is hard because "wasting" time is just so easy.
For me, visualising this has helped me put things in context and made me make better decisions but that's not to say I don't fall down the whole now and again. I wrote https://www.thismuchlonger.com/ many years ago and have it as a pinned tab in my browser.
Shameless plug for my recipes side project I re-released a few days ago https://www.recilution.com on fly.io. Still lots to do.
I actually looked at this along with git backed recipes as repositories. I can see it useful for personal sites or exchanging with people if there is client involved as it's quite portable. You could do versions, diffs, timelines all sorts.
However it's rather esoteric (I guess everything on Hacker News is!?) and don't think it applies to the masses.
Despite recipes being very simple as a list of ingredients and things to do there is actually lot things you can slice things to try to make things easier whether thats viewing the recipe or editing.
For me the challenge I find is finding recipes and then refining them in such a way they are turn out the way I want them without having to read pages of introductory text you find in most recipe blog sites
I’m working on https://www.dormantbear.com which is an aws scheduler to turn instances on and off for certain times of the day.
I use it for my own VPN box which I only require during office hours.
The main commercial use case is for turning off staging environments when not needed during out of office hours. For setups that are fixed and don’t spin up test environments on the fly.
For security you should provide aws creds that can access your staging boxes with permission to list instances and turn them on and off. Even though they are symetrically encrypted.
The service is free as I have not written billing or marketing pages yet.
i use the lumberjack and axe analogy. do you get on with the job (chopping trees) or stop refactor/ learn new skills (sharpening your axe) if you dont sharpen youll slow down. if you only sharpen you wont be chopping trees. one must compromise. sent from iphone.
For me, visualising this has helped me put things in context and made me make better decisions but that's not to say I don't fall down the whole now and again. I wrote https://www.thismuchlonger.com/ many years ago and have it as a pinned tab in my browser.