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# You Don't Need a Clock to Know You're a Badass
- URL: https://www.anndiab.com/you-dont-need-a-clock-to-know-youre-a-badass/
- Published: 2015-12-08T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-08T18:36:44.000Z
- Author: Ann Diab

If you know the desired outcome, there can’t possibly be a correlation between hours spent and value added. The value is there, or it is not.

You can roll up all of the productivity advice from all of the masters, and I just don’t see time tracking as a functional part of a fruitful process.

Certainly, if you intend to only perform a task for the next 30 minutes, set that timer! My challenge is in the tracking of that time as if the rollup of hours is anything but distracting.

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