| > Here’s Adam’s story of how living by UTC transformed his productivity, and why it might work for you, too. > Give it a try, you might find it as liberating as I do. Did you miss these quotes, or are they also part of the absolutism? Here are some ways I read it, which seem like fair interpretations and also don't make the author stand out as being particularly dogmatic or authoritarian: Considering the quotes I provided, it seems likely that the author may have been suggesting that we stop using timezones as a society in order to mitigate the only two downsides that they listed, since those downsides only exist as a result of society still using timezones while they as an individual stopped using them. Another way to read it could be that the author made a statement they believe is probably true ("timezones should be abolished") but they were not fully convinced. To gain confidence, they decided to gather further information: "I began with myself...To my surprise, it was easy" and then ended with two downsides of their experiment, suggesting that they realize it may not be a perfect solution, at least right now. A third way one could read it is to consider that the author didn't propose fines, jail-time, or any other specific penalties for continued use of timezones in their hypothetical world. Without enforcing a penalty, what does it even mean to "abolish" a timezone? In the context of the whole post, it seems to be more of a thought experiment imagining what could be if society as a whole switched, rather than a prescription of what must be. The unwillingness to engage with the author's thought experiment strikes me as more dogmatic than anything the author wrote, but perhaps I am not fully considering other possible interpretations. |