time sinks
Unproductive hour-consuming activities
Time sinks are activities that absorb disproportionate amounts of time relative to their value or necessity.
The term carries a negative connotation—something is a time sink when it consumes hours without commensurate reward: Social media is such a time sink, That meeting was a complete time sink.
Video games, bureaucratic processes, and endless email threads are commonly labeled time sinks.
- video gamesInteractive electronic entertainment
- loafingPassing time idly
- doomscrollingCompulsive consumption of distressing content
- distractionThing diverting one's attention
- idlenessState of doing nothing
social media · avoidance behavior · television · slackness · procrastination · binge-watching · overthinking · analysis paralysis · micromanagement · wasting · dawdling · delay · unproductivity · inefficiency · mobile gaming · scope creep · perfectionism · busywork
- productivity killersdistractions, procrastination, multitasking, micromanagement, bottleneck
- Internet Rabbit Holesdeep dives, Reddit threads, endless scrolling
time sinkstime-savers
Methods reducing task duration
shortcuts · automation · force multipliers · delegation · batch processing
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