Life is too short for TradCal mindset. This piece is a follow-on to this post, which articulates the enemy here.

This is a stack of screenshots from six of the world’s most popular calendar apps, stacked on top of one another with opacity lowered to see them all. Welcome to The Grid.

The essay that follows is an attempt to bring science fiction - storytelling about a data structure - into an operational, open source software project. As a design or set of specifications, this essay is insufficient and incomplete. This is a story about a data structure. This essay proposes new software tools for the data structures we use for time, including the replacement of timestamps with graph objects that have universally coordinated durations, and the establishment of Clock Zero, a decentralized, singular time anchor, and a normalizing time format translation system called xpayz time. All of these ideas emerge from one belief: institutions will not eternally control time itself.

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.

Sundial builds a model of who you want to be. An Aspirational Digital Twin. (tm)