How it shows up
- "I'll leave in 10 minutes" — you leave in 50, somehow.
- Hyperfocus eats an entire afternoon. It felt like 20 minutes.
- Everything is either now or not now. "Later" isn't a real place.
- Deadlines are invisible until they're emergencies.
You can't feel time. So look at it.
The fix isn't trying harder to sense time. It's externalizing it:
- Visual timers — a shrinking disk shows time as space. Your eyes get what your brain can't feel.
- Analog clocks in every room — digital "14:37" is data; a clock face is a picture of time.
- Alarms for transitions, not just appointments — "start wrapping up" matters more than "meeting at 3."
- Time anchors — attach tasks to events ("after lunch") instead of times ("at 2pm").
Do this now
Set the visual focus timer for your next work block. Watch the ring shrink instead of trusting a feeling you don't have.
