[wingerlang]

Do you ever think it's enough? For example:

> I can make everyday plans with greater precision, knowing exactly how many minutes I’ll need to shower or drive or buy groceries or do laundry or water the plants.

I used to think like this, I tracked how fast different routes took to work to optimize and decide. I optimized where I put what during laundry to make it less bothersome, and so on. But do you need 10 years of this? For me, after doing it a couple of times I basically got it.

A shower, I don't need to track it to know I can do it between 2-15 minutes. Or less, if I REALLY need to get going.

I've also built my apps, and used pre-built ones. But each time I've stopped, I haven't really missed it.

[WalterBright]

> A shower, I don't need to track it to know I can do it between 2-15 minutes. Or less, if I REALLY need to get going.

I just put a big (so I can read it without my glasses) battery operated (no electric shock risk) cheap (cuz I'm cheap) clock visible from the shower.

[medstrom]

Counting in my head works too. When I aim to finish after 120 seconds (2 minutes) I'll wind up taking 300 seconds (5 minutes), but that's better than taking three times that long.

[artnc]

Right, you certainly don't need to track yourself for 10 years to figure out how long a shower takes!

A rough analogy: you can figure out from your HP bar how much damage you take from each hit, and it's probably worth doing so if you're going to be fighting these same baddies forever and have no other way of knowing, but the HP bar also serves other important purposes related to resource management: it gives you a sense of how you're doing overall, and it constantly reminds you that HP management is even worth caring about.