Managing a Remote Team Across Time Zones
Practical strategies for distributed teams: finding overlap windows, building async-first communication habits, surviving DST transitions, and making timezone handoffs work.
Blog
Articles about time management, productivity, and timezones.
Stopwatch and Interval Training: Using Split Times to Get Faster
How interval training works physiologically, common protocols like HIIT, Tabata, and 800m repeats, and how to use split times and lap data to track progress and fix pacing.
Countdown Timers for Productivity, Cooking, and Mindfulness
How a simple countdown changes behavior across different contexts — cooking precision, task time-boxing, meditation sessions, meeting time limits, and exercise rest periods.
The Pomodoro Technique: History, Psychology, and How to Make It Work
The history behind the tomato-shaped timer, why fixed work/break intervals improve focus, how to adapt session lengths to different work types, and common mistakes to avoid.
Time Zone Math: UTC, DST, and Offsets Explained
What UTC actually is, how IANA timezone names differ from offsets, how DST transitions are scheduled, and the most common bugs in date and time code.
Welcome to MakeMyTimer (and why most online timers are wrong about time)
Why setInterval-based timers drift in backgrounded tabs, why we use requestAnimationFrame plus Date.now() deltas instead, and how MakeMyTimer ships zero timezone data of its own.