Tag: Planning

  • Your GPS Is Lying to You (But Physics Isn’t)

    Your GPS Is Lying to You (But Physics Isn’t)

    You trust your navigation app more than most people in your life. It says “11 minutes”, so you believe “11 minutes”. Then reality, traffic and one mysterious closed street transform that into 27 minutes and a minor existential crisis. The app was not trying to hurt you. It was simply built on a model that…

  • Time, Deadlines and the Illusion of ‘Later’

    Time, Deadlines and the Illusion of ‘Later’

    We treat time like a friendly, flexible substance. “I’ll do it later.” “There’s still time.” “The deadline is just a suggestion.” From a physics point of view, time is not particularly flexible. It just moves, one second after another, while we perform increasingly creative tricks to pretend it doesn’t. The straight line we keep ignoring…