Act 1: In the future, your calendar will care about you.

We’re building Sundial because our calendars are functional but abusive vestiges of another time, with absurd assumptions . Coordination is critical — sometimes. But how much of our lives really, truly need to be coordinated to the second, in an era where computers solve more and more of our problems? Less and less.

Rather than prove it in a lengthy post, I’ll give you, the reader, the benefit of the doubt on forecasting the long-term impact of work from home, automation, AI, and rise of cultural values focused on spending time on self-care and selfie experiences. Each of these erode our need to synchronize and coordinate.

Here’s how we’re building a “calendar” alternative for that new world:

Build a calendar that is honest about the scarcity of your time.

You have a very short time to live, on a cosmic scale. You may be able to extend your life soon, but human bodies are not going to live for millions of years anytime in the foreseeable future, so many experiences operate in an extremely limited time bracket. Your chance to play professional sports is limited to an age range; your chance to have kids is limited to an age range; your chance to see an eclipse is time-limited. Almost everything has some upper and lower bound of time that can be spent.(1) Those hard ranges are the first principles upon which Sundial is built, including how long you can live. The sundial is a metaphor enabled by sunrise and sunset — hard limits on our days, forced by the rotation of the cosmos themselves.

There is a hard limit on how many backyard barbecues you can go to.

There is a hard limit on the number of yoga classes you can attend.

There is a hard limit on the number of sunsets you can see.

When you model all of your time, every action has an opportunity cost. Watching a show while you eat dinner? You missed one of the limited set of sunsets you can watch during your time as conscious human life.

The thing is, we don’t live in a world in which we are deluding ourselves, not nearly as much as we used to. The awareness that life is short is broad; tightening the grip on the wallet of your time hasn’t started yet; but it’s coming.

Build a calendar that keeps a score.

The Sundial alpha web app already includes the ability to approximate how an activity will impact your longevity. By using a Deep Time model, Sundial can keep various scores about all kinds of stuff. This is going to be the core of how we enable scorekeeping and forecasting. Your Deep Digital Twin can be many different versions of you, and we attach consequences to those future projected data models. So we can forecast how your exercise, for instance, will impact your longevity.

Is it a realistic forecast? It’s mathematically impossible to say.

Are forecasts valuable because they’re accurate, or because they help you make decisions today with better information? If you check the weather, it’s the latter. Weather forecasts are notoriously difficult. Forecasts enable space exploration by analyzing weather patterns seconds ahead of the present because of the real time it takes to turn giant rudders being longer than the time needed to correct to strong turbulence. Economic forecasts are the foundation of our public policy — perhaps all public policy.

Why do all this?

Sundial and our approach to social impact.

I have spent about half of my career in companies that are b-corp, “social impact,” or some other generally-trying-to-do-good model of business. I’ve spent the other half in high-growth venture equity companies and consulting for private equity funds and mega conglomerates. I’m not convinced that Tom’s Shoes is a morally better company than Intel; as a matter of fact, I think the world would collapse without Intel, and be fine without Tom’s. My perspective now is that we should all be the judge of our own outcomes, but also that we should strive to make those choices as the healthiest version of ourselves.

So, I have never pushed an outcome in testing EDITOR with people. It’s a 1-2 hour process, and involves dozens - even hundreds - of questions. People laugh, people cry. They talk about their lives. Here are the things I’ve learned help people, observationally:

1. Breaking bad habits through increased awareness. Realizing that you will spend 22% of your waking life watching shows can be a reality check. Sometimes perspectives change quickly - in minutes or seconds - on visualizing something like this.

2. Social permission to act against loneliness and disconnection. People have disconnected from each other during COVID, especially from older people, and there is now a real need to reach out and plan activities. Sundial at its best gives people the reason, the envelope, and the actual invitation to get together. It’s easier to invite someone to a museum than to have a chat, for many people.

3. “I have no time.” means you have bad habits. Many of these people have plenty of time, but are loaded down with either responsibilities they don’t want, or habits that don’t fulfill them.

4. Their intention did not meet their impact. They intend to have lots of magic moments with their kids; instead they are spending their time shopping real estate to find the place to have future magic moments.

5. Hyper scheduling. Some people find happiness in knowing all the things they want to do. While we have to be careful about rewarding dopamine by planning instead of doing, for a lot of people a life plan is a reward unto itself.

6. Looking in the magic mirror. Like a lot of exercises, Sundial helps people stop lying to themselves about the things they know they’re lying to themselves about.

7. Emotional state modeling helps people want to stop being upset so much of the time. Future essays will be dedicated to this.

8. HD mimicry — as mentioned at length before, people want to mimic top performers. Freeing up “me” time to mimic “hero” time is appealing to a lot of folks.

9. Whoa factor. Ever seen how your life will be going in 2030, and meditated on it for 20 minutes? (Emoji)

10. The power of positive visualization. Sundial as a brand, as a metaphor, and as a practice is atavistic. We use contemporary tools to map reality as it is laid out before us. At its core, Sundial is yet another exercise in the power of positive visualization; a tool designed for a universe that responds to the stories we tell it.

Do we need a b-corp to do this? I’m not sure. My wife co-authored the b-corp legislation in Arizona, and she’s not, either. Are DAO’s the new b-corp? Not sure about that either. For now, Sundial is an S-corp.

Sundial is “The calendar that cares about you.” ™

To care about you, your calendar has to know you. Not in some way that’s focused on selling you ads. The real you. Your hopes, your dreams, your reactions to outcomes.

A computer can only care about what you tell it to care about. Typically, we tell our calendars when we need to coordinate with other people, and we use generic labels, not a structured taxonomy of activities that can be quantified and modeled. Sundial changes all of that, creating a platform where you explore the person you want to be, then act on specific goals, based on specific outcomes. It’s like converting life from a TV show you watch to a video game you play.

The more information you put into Sundial about who you want to be, the better it can help you actually live that life. Whether it’s eating dinner with grandma more or getting a black belt - or any type of life goal - Sundial is focused on outcomes, and those are determined by you.

Sundial wants you to live longer.

Sundial wants you to be less lonely and more connected.

Sundial wants you to be mentally and physically healthy.

Sundial wants you to be economically successful.

Sundial wants you to be as good at your job as the best person in the world is at that job.

Sundial wants you to be the best you.

We are all experiments in consciousness.

Sundial doesn’t have a bias towards any philosophy, creed, partisan position, or any limitations (other than legal) on what makes the best version of you. That’s completely up to you. As the founder of the company, this is a direct application of my personal beliefs. We are all beautiful manifestations of consciousness from the stardust, and we should be the best us — not the best whomever someone else tells us to be.

Feedback loops and digital twins.

The largest activity forecast we have done yet, internally, modeled about 1.3mm activities in the client’s future. That was because the client was relatively young, and interested in living a long life already, exercising and maintaining a rigorous medical routine. They had a lot of time to live. That’s a lot of brushing your teeth.

Most calendars don’t have feedback loops, and most that do are enterprise sales products. While it’s not in our web app yet, we’re transparent about heading that way.

If you’re interested, here’s how much I’ll brush my teeth.

(Sundial app link.)

Sundial is like Fount — for time.

I’m inspired by the story of Fount. They’ve taken two huge startup categories and synthesized them into a more thoughtful model. The idea is your blood testing and health control what you get in your meal kits they deliver. It’s genius, imo. Packy McCormick thinks so, too.

The way Sundial is like Fount for time is that Sundial focuses on how your actions impact your life, your wellbeing, your happiness, your sense of finding and fulfilling a life’s purpose. Sundial doesn’t beep when it’s time for a meeting. Sundial aligns your values with your actions.

Act 2: A calendar for a time of great transformation.

We have to adapt faster and faster.

Economists and analysts print volumes each day on how the rate of innovation, the rate of change, is increasing. Meme behaviors can sweep across the globe in hours now, even minutes in some cases. The Thing of The Day is a trend that is going to increase, and every day will have a thing.

Our economies are going to re-distribute. A Network State will emerge on top of nation states. Whether we go multi-polar or things just get weird, it will be different.

Americans will need to learn advanced manufacturing quickly. Other nations will struggle with the requirements of retooling their economies. AI and automation will flip more scripts than computers and the internet have so far.

Sundial isn’t just about bucket lists. It’s about living best lives, and that includes being awesome, reliable, and smart about your work and productivity. We are all interdependent and need each other’s best-ness.

Mimic how time is invested, and with whom, and in what sequence.

This is the core of the small networks of operator + service provider + clients that are formed by some of the fastest growing companies in history. Humans seem to have evolved into team structures. We need to focus self-performance not just on the self, but on mimicry we exhibit in personal, interpersonal, and sequential patterns.

Are all actions connected to time?

Yes.

Sundial is a platform for a new way of life.

Enough consumption. Don’t live a little. Live a lot.

As the world changes, we need to spend more time doing things that move our time from passive to active. So many people have a list of accomplishments, after which they can “relax” and this is when they consume things. That is OK, and we - in part - will promote a lot of that. But not exclusively that.

Sundial is building a tool to enable humans to refine and replicate our life journeys, broken down into activities and playbooks.

Be the customer, not the product or the audience.

Your life is being sliced into milliseconds and sold to the highest bidder, already. Advertising model platforms are all connected to this harsh reality — your time is for sale. One party attracts it, usually with compelling content, then once it is captured, sells that time and space to someone else. You get the emotions of the content, and perhaps an escape, but not a penny of the transaction. Many times, the advertising platform itself is benefiting not just from your specific time, but from your future projected time, as well. That is what the stock market for publicly traded advertising based models is — a forecast of your time.

Ruin bad habits with perspective.

One of the most powerful use cases of Sundial is helping people snap out of a bad behavior. We are going to tell the stories of real people who have really changed their behavior thanks to Sundial.

I sat down with a friend of mine last October. During COVID he went through a divorce, went through a fall off in his career in the entertainment and commercial production industry, and moved in and out of his parents’ house while finalizing a house sale. A rough time. He didn’t start drinking heavily or gain a bunch of weight; but he started watching a lot of content.

When we added it all up, and visualized it as a Sundial - how much of his life he would spend on this - it was 12:45pm in the day of his life, and he was going to watch shows until 5:20pm. He said he stopped binge watching that day. I checked in with him at three months out, and he was dating again, as well as traveling to Mexico for fun. He was living his life. Of course the change was within him, and his therapy process played a part, and so on — but he credited his three hour EDITOR experience with Sundial as “life changing.” He’s a real friend, this means a lot to me. It was a big reason I doubled down, shifting to spending most of my time spent on Sundial - unpaid - designing, developing, and market testing.

It’s time to help people out. Be a friend. Be a mentor.

We’re likely to see wild changes in our economic structure, and our leaders are publicly warning the whole world about global food shortages. People need help; and people will need lots of help. Whether it’s your neighbor, or the world away — you can help people. Sundial makes it super easy to see how much of your time it actually takes to, for example, help in a community garden for two years. I modeled out my own time, and it’s surprisingly small.

(Link to Sean garden sundial)

Anti-calendarism and our competitive advantage.

Something trying to be the best in a product class can’t compete with something that undermines the existence of its product class. A horse can’t compete with a car. A computer is inconceivable orders of magnitude more powerful than an abacus wizard ever could be, and knows of the existence neither of the wizard nor his abacus.

The most powerful and largest companies in tech can easily add most features. But they cannot easily add features that undermine the purpose of their products. Search companies with calendars can’t take the time of day off the calendar, without extraordinary education to the market, and careful public relations over a long period of time. Companies building tools for work are so deeply vested in time as it synchronizes global supply chains, that any change the structure of time management is a loss of market position for them, and not something they could rationally pursue. In all but a few cases, time needs to stay the same for the system to work.

Anti-calendarism, deep work, and deep time.

Deep Work is a concept that has spread like wildfire, and is proudly circulated among great thinkers, leading engineers, and prominent voices in podcasting as the way to get shit done. Dozens - if not hundreds - of apps promise ways to manage this. Schedules, readings, trainings, timer apps, and a never-ending set of top 5 lists in email newsletters, each promising to make the most out of your day.

In this way, our Ancient Roman predecessors would have likely understood their point, and named it simply Carpe Diem, which was often inscribed on their sundials.

COVID cost us billions of hours of quarantine, collectively.

I ran some numbers about COVID, and they’re shocking. The amount of time we have spent in quarantine - as a country, and as a species - is staggering. I don’t need Sundial’s math to run the numbers, here they are:

Billions of people * minimum dozens of days locked down * 12 hour minimum day = tens of billions of hours locked down. Probably hundreds of billions. Maybe a trillion including the current and near-future.

Factory schedules need to depart with factories.

Stupid management practices by small-minded people who don’t care about pain and trauma and sensitivity have crushed the souls of the brilliant with schedules designed to make peasants of our minds.

Your schedule — as art. “Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think.”

Great songs, great movies, and great thinkers have all cited this expression. A permutation of carpe diem, purportedly engraved on sundials in Ancient Rome as well, this expression encapsulates half of what Sundial is about. That is the need we hope to foster in most people, to love the opportunity at consciousness, to explore, to revel, to feel, and to love.

(The other half is about being excellent at whatever you do, fwiw.)

As we plan our bucket lists, so we plan our lives.

EDITOR is called EDITOR because it literally edits your life story. You are the author. We’re just here to help.

Do great things — together. Your calendar is your social life. Two player mode coming soon.

“I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.” - Rumi

Whether it’s helping a community garden, or inventing the next medical breakthrough tech with a badass team, you can probably do more faster with a great plan. Maybe you need one year, three year, or a five year plan.

Sundial is evolving into a social calendar platform. A lot of social media pushes you to be the person advertisers want you to be. When we enable two-player mode, it becomes a central point for sharing life’s journeys together. Because Sundial isn’t focused on social streams or constant engagement, but instead scoring as high as you can in the game of life, it pushes you to be the person you want to be.

High performers want to mimic.

“That great poets imitate and improve, whereas small ones steal and spoil.” - Tennyson

This quotation has been attributed to many, including Picasso. I first heard it as “Good artists borrow; great artists steal.” which appears to be Steve Jobs imitating and improving it from Tennyson.

Later in this essay, you can see how Sundial EDITOR already has a draft function to compare yourself to famous high performers, like comparing how much you read to how much Oprah reads, per her famous hour a day dictum for her book club.

Time pattern mimicry is a relatively new thing.

While there are countless blog posts about how “Elon spends his day” it’s unlikely any given day follows that pattern so specifically. It’s hard to imagine Elon skipping a meeting going over an algorithm to ensure he has his 20 minutes of cardio at exactly 4pm. So, people are being - basically - inspired by his hypothetical schedule, and making probably minor changes to their own when reading these pieces. It could be Steve Jobs or Joan of Arc and it wouldn’t matter — people are replicating a false schedule. A real one would be complex, include campaigns, as well as different schedules for different phases of company growth.

What we’re building at Sundial is a way to spend the same time budget as Elon, which is fundamentally different. Distribute a complex narrative across a set amount of scarce time, and then you can really emulate someone.

The same would be true of a great cellist. If you follow their time budget, it’s likely you’ll be very good at cello in the end. Perhaps you don’t attend the Royal Academy to study cello, but use an online tutor. In any case, if you dedicate yourself and mimic the time budget spent, you are likely to onboard a very similar neurological graph structure that allows you to mostly play what they can play.

High resolution mimicry is going to rapidly replace “read a book and think about it” self-help and business mastery courses. At first the rate of change will be slow, but it will then become exponential, and HD mimicry will quickly become the only credible type of self-improvement.

Don’t have time? Buy time.™

Sundial is going to enable a new feature soon — the ability to Buy time.™

We know that for people to spend time on what they need to do, they need to be able to have more time. We’re working to build an incredible team of partners who can bring this vision about.

Want to live longer? It’s a lot about how you spend your time.

The diseases most likely to kill us in the United States are basically self-imposed. That doesn’t mean we would survive forever if we didn’t eat sugar, or inhale air pollution. It just means that we can increase our odds of living longer based on our behaviors today. Arguably, there has never been a time that a threshold of great longevity may so clearly emerge, as advances in life sciences and brain-to-computer interfaces are increasing in their pace of realization. Perhaps there is a magic day, say 2039, after which people live to 300 years on average. I would like to get to that day.

Sundial does more than help you go to the gym, or understand the importance of that. It projects how your life will go because you go to the gym. You will see a whole new world enabled by exercising into your later years. Your list of options stays long. If you lose the ability to hike, for example, perhaps half of all Bucket List items in Sundial are immediately unavailable.

Your doctors, your healers, your thought leaders, and your spiritual leaders all have opinions on how to program your Sundial.

The “self-improvement industry” is a $10B+ market and growing. Some podcasters have built empires around time mimicry. Some in just…four hours…of work each week.

Beyond the billions of hours listened by podcast audiences around the world, physicians, spiritual leaders, and most employers, as well as most schools, have very specific prescriptions for your time budget.

An apple a day is about seven minutes a day. Twenty minutes of exercise a day is a use of time, even though it’s tied to optimal cardiovascular exercise ranges. Meditating every morning is a time prescription as much as a behavior prescription — if you ask a practiced meditator if they are really spending twenty minutes in the headspace, or rather allocating twenty minutes, flailing like a mental fish out of water for a bunch of it, and then grasping at a fleeting few minute of clarity transcending their monkey brain, it’s likely to be the latter. It’s a time, not a thought.

Most religious practices have time allocations. Pray five time a day. Come to church on Sunday; temple on Saturday; youth group on Wednesday; this holiday; that holiday. Again, most practices don’t expect people to be automatically spiritually reverent during these times, but to keep the drumbeat of time allocation in their lives. In many Protestant American traditions, there is an expression of committing “time, talent, and treasure” — it’s a powerful leveling factor for some people to pay the organization’s cash bills, while others pay the time bills, often being services to those in need.

Across these domains, actions can be broken into activities and time budgets to mimic, and for the most part - barring sometimes having access to places or equipment - you can manage mental, physical, and spiritual health.

Building a calendar that matches the values of people I respect.

Due to commercial use laws, I can’t list the people I respect so much, quoting from their tweets. But it’s easy to find a media personality, celebrity, or visionary who says time matters more than money. From people who invented personal computers to people who star on the most popular streaming shows, celebrities and leaders the world over credit their inner knowledge of the scarcity of time for some of the mindset that makes them who they are. Please check my Twitter for a mega thread of examples of personal favorites.

Act 3: EDITOR is a lifelong process of self-discovery and self-improvement. The Sundial App takes one minute, or so.

Think of EDITOR like Sundial Pro.

EDITOR is software to edit your life story. It runs forecasts on hundreds of thousands of future activities in your life, and in some cases, many potential versions of you. It takes hours - sometimes days - to program in detail. It’s done with the help of a professional, who coaches you through the grueling process of modeling your best and worst selves, then modifying your functional calendar until your behaviors align with your schedule. In this essay, I’m going to lay out the way it works from my personal EDITOR work.

A critical thing to know is that these slides come from multiple people, to protect each’s anonymity. I’m one of many, and their names have been changed / removed. Everything is shared with those clients’ consent, and as anonymized.

Before we get into the walkthrough:

Storytellers and time.

The manipulation of time is an ancient technique for storytelling and visualizing things that are not happening in present time. This ability itself may be very rare, if not unique to humans and computers humans program, for now. One of the oldest examples of time manipulation is in Arbahamic texts, which depict Isaiah moving the sundial of Ahaz ten degrees backward. Mark Twain put a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Tarantino cut Pulp Fiction with a time traveler’s lens. Today, more than one VR app offers “time travel” as a button to another time, through photographs, augmented reality, and other nifty tricks like historical audio converted to immersive audio. Spike Lee put out See You Yesterday, quite literally about time travel. Ryan Reynolds just debuted The Adam Project, where he meets his past and future self.

I believe the stories we tell ourselves shape our realities. That’s why I’m building what I’m building — so you can tell yourself a story that shapes the reality in which you want to live. You are the writer. Sundial and EDITOR are better typewriters, models that can forecast the consequences of what you write to them.

The best stories take time.

You can’t write your life story in a day. You can live your life story — in exactly one life.

Using a tool like EDITOR is a commitment to optimizing the way you use your time. Starting today, EDITOR is becoming a subscription. We’ll onboard you to a new life story, then work monthly to review your progress on your path. If you’d like to reserve one of the new client slots we’re adding each week, please sign up here.

Talking to a human to get conversational feedback loops and casual honesty with yourself.

There is something about reviewing your schedule with a Time Coach, seeing how different versions of you could play out based on your behavior, and then adjusting your real world calendar to be who you want to be. It’s got an aspect of a traditional or spiritual practice, in terms of self reflection, and planning for the future. It’s got an aspect of talking to a financial analyst, although no financial information or advice is exchanged — to be clear. Our goal is to build models of you that inform you. It’s a difficult process, but well worth it.

Once the Deep Digital Twin of you is built - think of it like a full body MRI for your calendar - we start to get immediate feedback. Do you like who you would be if you lived one way, more than this other way? Would you rather write multiple books, or just one or two, and master another hobby, like painting, as well? You can choose either path, or neither.

As you fine-tune your EDITOR model, your Deep Digital Twin will become more and more accurate, both to your behaviors and your life goals. Once you have a model you like, we export it to the Sundial App, and to mainstream calendar apps.

BUT then you go live life.

Because this is about how you live, not how you’d like to live, EDITOR is an ongoing process. You’ll get a lot of information up front, but a choose-your-own-pace cycle of check-ins with your Time Coach will make it possible to update your models. This is a premium service for people making the most of their time. The feedback loop is critical to fine-tuning your model, especially for emotional outcomes.

EDITOR puts your Deep Digital Twin in a Deep Time environment and it’s wild to see the results.

Is this too buzzword heavy? Yeah. But is it even more than that awesome? Yes.

A digital twin on top of a whole-life timeline enables you to see how different behavior models - different versions of yourself - play out. Let’s dive in:

Perspective: We start with the meta view. Sundial is forecasting 454,663 events for ‘Sean Zero’ - one of my twins, using myself where there is a name attached.

The time of the day of your life.

Sundial is predicated on a metaphor of “the day of your life.” It’s a way to look at how you spend your time allocation. For me, it’s getting close to noon in my twin’s model of his life, were it just one day. That’s a wake up call for real me!

Learning to think in “Sundial Time” to understand time scarcity.

It takes a little practice to learn to think like this: “If my life were just one day long, how much time would I spend on this activity?”

In this case, the client wanted to spend more time casually making art. She realized she would only spend 27 seconds of the day of her life doing that. This page of her initial report immediately re-framed her mental model about creating.

At this rate, she was spending so much time focused on work and kids, that she hadn’t been checking in with old friends. Had she continued to behave as she had been the past few years, art and old friends would make up a combined minute of the day of her life. Again - quick change in perspective, slow change in behavior.

It wasn’t all bad habits. Yoga dominated. This still was less than she wants.

Looking at a life journey — in this case business.

Imagine a person who intends to spend 15 years running a venture-backed startup. That’s about 3 hours and 21 minutes of the day of that person’s life. During that time, other projects will require emails to professional services providers, attorneys, realtors, et. al that aren’t part of regular work. That person, if they manage to get their company acquired, will likely become a board member, and then investor in other companies to empower other entrepreneurs to build better worlds like they did. They’ll also have to handle bad debts, commute, and handle their small businesses, like AirBNB’s. All of that together — a forecast of 42,442 hours of their life in work.

Seeing old friends gets more and more rare. Every 3 years sound right?

This client has a plan - and cheat cards - to increase their longevity, value creation, and accomplishment of rare life goals by regularly connecting with old friends. The client was a young woman but thought this image was great for representing chatting with her girlfriends.

Keeping score, forecasting score.

Sundial fundamentally changes what a calendar is by focusing on outcomes based on your behaviors, and actions based on your intentions and plans, not passive mindset.

A powerful consequence of a calendar keeping score is that it enables outcomes forecasting like longevity. In this case, we ran an investor’s time across investment classes, modeling out their own perception of what created the most value. It was a wake up call to see real estate vs. venture when real estate takes much less time and stress.

Longevity is another critical dimension to analyze. It turns out brushing your teeth is a huge “bang for your buck” in time spent to the time it extends your life, as oral hygiene has a lot to do with cardiovascular health.

What are your time investments by relationship class?

Using powerful financial modeling concepts that are relatively simple to implement with our data structure, we can see that this person has a life plan to spend the majority of their time working. That’s true for almost all of us.

In the same domain of analysis, we can look at types of behaviors. Work and Entertainment usually make up people’s biggest time investments. Holidays, bucket lists, etc. are very small pie slices — typically.

How do you feel about how you spend your time?

It seems a relatively simple question to ask how what you do makes you feel, but people are often - usually - surprised at how much of their time is going to things they don’t enjoy. The classic example is a job they dislike, or an unhappy long-term relationship. But often people just don’t like emailing, they also don’t like binge watching but do it anyway, then feel bad. EDITOR assigns emotions to each event in your forecasts and can break down how you are going to spend your life feeling.

For everyone who has done it so far, feeling Exceptional or meeting Life Goals are smaller parts of the day of their life than “Good” or “Negative.”

It makes me personally question how I live my life, I am working with people through this.

The many you’s you can be.

EDITOR compares three possible versions of you:

1. What Sundial forecasts you will do.
2. What you said you want to do.
3. What you would do if you behaved the same as you have historically.

For clients, it’s effective to compare the many timelines they might live, and have to reconcile with the rationality (brutality?) of EDITOR’s forecast, which takes into account hundreds of thousands of passive events, like eating, brushing your teeth, and traffic.

In this case, you can see my wife, Courtney, wants us to spend a lot more time playing sports together as a family. We would spend just 122 hours doing this with our kids while they are kids if we behaved the same way for the rest of the time we have. She aspires that we spend about 10x that time. Our forecast is that she would do it about half that, in this case, due to a variety of factors, including her other athletic commitments, yoga, etc.

Is this forecast correct? As much as the weather, perhaps. Has it changed our behavior? I challenge you to a game of fútbol in our new backyard soccer net.

EDITOR has a time machine, too.

Everything we do at Sundial involves the ability to gain perspective by taking alternative views of time, time management, and really, database design and time. For EDITOR clients, the time machine function is more about individual goals. In this case, you can see an alternative model where my wife is too busy, and doesn’t hit her goals. The pairing of possibility with the reality that nothing comes true unless you do it works very well in giving perspective.

Editing your life story is important, complex, and takes a time investment.

“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.” - R. Buckminster Fuller.

Imagine that someone gives you hundreds of thousands of dollars. Would you spend any of that money ensuring there was a sound budget for it? I would. The same is true for my hundreds of thousands of hours. I am willing to spend a meaningful percentage of my Budget of Conscious Hours to spend that time well.

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Thank you.

Sean
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(1) There are outliers to everything.