Smartlife

There’s something about psychology that responds to external motivation. Video games make most use of this kind of change — which is unfortunate because while they’re useful relaxation tools — computer games are the opposite of everything this blog stands for. In World of Warcraft, you adapt your own lifestyle to better serve the machine; here at Smartlife we make the machines work for you. This means that we’ll be first against the electro-wall when the Cylons come, but until then, we’ll help you work smarter with silicon…

American society is open-ended — an endless number of things to do, be, see, have, and experience. This open endedness creates a sense of time starvation among us — always one more thing to do or accomplish — which, in turn, drives us to seek means and methods to maximize every living nanosecond or to complain endlessly about how other people, corporations, governments, and electronic devices waste our time.

Product/Service Name

BubbleTimer

Brief Description

Knowing where you spend your time is the key to effectively achieving your goals but tracking your time to the second is just a waste of time! With one click on BubbleTimer, a web-based application, you have bubbled in 15 minutes of time. You get a handle on where all your time is going without any fuss or complexity.

In the modern world of non-stop ways to make you life more productive and increase your free time do we really consider how much of that alleged free time we really accrue?

For me the balance of work, play, relationships, basic needs, frivolous endeavors, and a multitude of various facets that coalesce into the consolidated pool we shall call “utilizable time” don’t actually allow me to do more in any given day than what I anecdotally tally in my short and rather unscientific review of the past.