Add original TimeSampling page master
authorDan White <dan@whiteaudio.com>
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:09:16 +0000 (14:09 -0600)
committerDan White <dan@whiteaudio.com>
Thu, 6 Mar 2025 17:03:05 +0000 (11:03 -0600)
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+                               <h1 class="firstHeading">Time sampling</h1>
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+                       <h3 id="siteSub">From 43FoldersWiki</h3>
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+                       <table id="toc" class="toc" summary="Contents"><tr><td><div id="toctitle"><h2>Contents</h2></div>
+<ul>
+<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Where_did_my_time_go.3F"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Where did my time go?</span></a>
+<ul>
+<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Time_sampling"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Time sampling</span></a></li>
+<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Analysis"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Analysis</span></a></li>
+<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Action"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Action</span></a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table><script type="text/javascript"> if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } </script>
+<a name="Where_did_my_time_go.3F"></a><h1><span class="editsection">[<a href="/web/20190609212016/http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php?title=Time_sampling&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Where did my time go?">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Where did my time go?</span></h1>
+<p>Well, right now, it's going into writing this page. But tomorrow, all I'll remember is that I didn't get much done today!
+</p><p>A solution I've used in the past &mdash; and am getting very close to doing so again &mdash; is <i><b>time sampling.</b></i>
+</p><p>As an electrical and software engineer, I was very familiar with the concept. For more than you ever wanted to know, look for the works of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190609212016/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fourier" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Joseph_Fourier">Joseph Fourier</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190609212016/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Nyquist" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Harry_Nyquist">Harry Nyquist</a>, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190609212016/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Claude_Shannon">Claude Shannon</a>, who evolved the concept over the past 100 years or so into the generalized science of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190609212016/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/information_theory" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:information_theory">information theory</a>.
+</p><p><i>"But how will giving me a bunch of new links to waste time on help me make better use of <b>my</b> time?"</i>
+</p><p>Oops. You caught me in a digression. Sorry!
+</p>
+<a name="Time_sampling"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/web/20190609212016/http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php?title=Time_sampling&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Time sampling">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Time sampling</span></h2>
+<p>The basic theory is that if you sample something at regular intervals, you have a powerful dataset for later manipulation and analysis.
+</p><p>So, first get yourself a timer. A watch with a count-down function works fine, so does an old, mechanical kitchen timer from the thrift store, or even an hourglass &mdash; if you remember to watch it. But it is important that the interval be fairly regular. This doesn't work if you spend five minutes on one interval, and sixty on the next.
+</p><p>Next, take a sheet of paper and draw some simple columns on it. The columns need to be wide enough to put one to three or four words in them.
+</p><p>Now, pick an interval. Ten minutes is on the short side; and hour is probably too long. But it depends on how long your typical task is. Generally speaking, you want the interval to be no longer than half the time of the shortest task you want to measure.
+</p><p>Now, set your watch/timer/hourglass/whatever, and begin your day. Each time the timer goes off, write on one line in the column a few words about what you were doing, then reset and re-start the timer.
+</p><p>At the end of the day, you'll have an impressive amount of raw data to play with that may yield surprising results!
+</p>
+<a name="Analysis"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/web/20190609212016/http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php?title=Time_sampling&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Analysis">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Analysis</span></h2>
+<p>First, note the quantum theory principle that observing a system necessarily impacts the system. Y'know, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190609212016/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%83%C2%B6dinger%27s_cat" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Schrödinger's_cat">Schrödinger's cat</a> and all. Things that require uninterrupted concentration will take longer when subjected to ten-minute interruptions!
+</p><p>It will help your analysis to enter your data into a spreadsheet or simple database. (But it may hurt your time crunch to take time to do this!)
+</p><p>Sort the data by numbers of occurrences -- in other words, make a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190609212016/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/histogram" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:histogram">histogram</a> from it. This first-order analysis may yield surprises -- did I <i>really</i> spend that much time reading blogs?&nbsp;:-)
+</p><p>The more sophisticated may want to try a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190609212016/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fourier_transform" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:fourier_transform">fourier transform</a> (named after Joseph) of the data, which will give you a frequency plot, which is handy for understanding periodic habits.
+</p>
+<a name="Action"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/web/20190609212016/http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php?title=Time_sampling&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Action">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Action</span></h2>
+<p>Now, you've negatively impacted your focus-requiring activities with a stupid beeping watch, and forked over more time to drawing pretty graphs &mdash; what's next?
+</p><p>Once I've sorted and counted and made my population histogram, I color the bars three colors: <font color="green"><b>green</b></font> for things that are productive, that I should be doing, <font color="red"><b>red</b></font> for things that are decidedly non-productive, that I shouldn't be doing, and <font color="yellow"><b>yellow</b></font> for those things that are "gray areas", that may be aiding or subtracting from my productivity.
+</p><p>Now you can easily see how much of your time is helping, how much is hurting, and how much you need to simply understand better before making a judgement.
+</p><p>Run your sampling again, but this time, have your colored histogram at hand. Whenever you catch yourself sampling a <font color="red"><b>red</b></font> activity, <i><b>just stop it, dammit!</b></i> Or maybe give yourself a mild electric shock or something, to negatively condition yourself to that activity.
+</p><p>I once implemented this as a computer program, with a window that popped up with a self-expanding speed list of previously entered activities, but it got old &mdash; meaning, the computer and operating system it ran on no longer exists. If someone wants to program a modern version, I'd be happy to help out.
+</p><p>Now back to whatever it was I was avoiding by writing this artile... --<a href="/web/20190609212016/http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/User:Bytesmiths" title="User:Bytesmiths">Jan</a><sup><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190609212016/http://www.ecoreality.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.EcoReality.org" rel="nofollow">EcoReality</a></sup> 19:30, 17 January 2006 (EST)
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