how do i spend my days?

2022

independent experiment,
data visualisation.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.


words by annie dillard.

inspired by annie dillard's eloquent words, i sought a way to keep track of how i spend my life. there were six distinct buckets that i wanted to spend my time in:

  1. work (my full-time job)
  2. teaching (my part-time job)
  3. creative practice
  4. people (friends, family & social obligations)
  5. health (physical exercise)
  6. archiving (website & writing activities)

the objective was to achieve a balance every day, and put time into each one of them. the amount of time didn't matter — (a) because some buckets (such as working out) required lesser time than others (my full-time job), and (b) the amount of time i spent in a bucket might vary because of the situation at-hand.

i first did this activity on a paper stuck to my front-door, and later converted that into a visualisation using matter.js:

video loop.