The linear model — brainstorm, outline, write, proofread — describes almost nobody, and it is expensive: it quietly spends your whole calendar on one anxious draft. Drag the hours below across the six stages of a ten-hour essay project and watch the diagnosis change. Then click a station on the loop to see what “done” looks like there.
Spend ten hours on a 1,500-word essay
Drag each stage
Total planned: 10.0 h
Or load a budget
What that budget actually buys
Your process, drawn as a loop
Click a stationEach station has a finish line. Click one on the loop above to see how you know you are done there — and how many minutes you have funded for it.