Automating my time tracking tools using Shortcuts, Toggl API, and Python.
Time tracking is a frightfully wonderful thing; It’s hard to do (as those missing bars in my header image shows) but the perspective you can gain from even moderate tracking is rewarding and sobering. Human minds are not designed to be an accurate log of the flow of time, and in a lot of circumstances it’s frustratingly counterintuitive. The droning tasks of Monday afternoon can feel like an eternal 15 minutes, while the super awesome yet purely aesthetic work on Tuesday morning can feel like a speedy hour. …
Philosophy of the Project
The wallet is a complicated place. You have money that comes in, money that comes out; Hopefully some money that grows into more money . . . hopefully less money that you have promised elsewhere. At the “molecular” level, these four channels aren’t too complex but the farther out you look, the harder it is to understand. With various accounts in disparate institutions transferring bits and bytes to stranger accounts in their own respective institutions. It’s not easy to keep track of all the movements that have gone, are here, or still to come.
Nahum’s Financial Infrastructure (NFI, from here…
Nahum Garcia
Data analyst, musician, and aspiring philosopher.
