Chisel: Stoic Focus

Chisel is a focus timer that carves marble. Every hour you spend on your work cuts stone away from a philosopher's bust. When the bust is finished it goes to stand in your Stoa, and it stays there, because you made it out of hours you will not get back. HOW IT WORKS Write down what is in your control. Choose twenty-five, fifty or ninety minutes. Take up the chisel. While the session runs, stone falls away from the block in front of you — and when it is done, the minutes are in the stone whether you finished the task or not. The first statue takes an hour and a half. Every one after takes four. PRACTICE AND DISCIPLINE A practice session can be paused whenever you need to. A discipline session cannot: you stay until it ends, or you hold to yield. Nothing is lost either way. Quitting early keeps the minutes you carved. THE GATE Name the apps that take your attention and Chisel holds them…