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Hey club,
Let me tell you about a book that's been on my mind.
Time is a Tool by Benjamin Hardy.
Most people think of time as a clock. Something that ticks forward. Something you manage. Something you never have enough of.
Hardy flips this completely.
He argues that time isn't a constraint. It's a tool. A lens. Even a measure of distance.
The key insight:
The fastest way to move forward is to let your future self filter your present decisions.
When you're clear about where you're going, everything that doesn't align falls away. You stop optimizing things that shouldn't exist. You stop saying yes to things that don't matter.
This is where scaling happens. Not by doing more. By eliminating what slows you down.
Hardy talks about "wormholes" in the book.
These are decisions that compress decades of progress into months or years.
Think about it:
→ A founder who spends 2 years building the wrong product vs one who validates in 2 weeks
→ A professional who climbs the ladder slowly vs one who makes a single bold move that changes everything
→ Someone who says yes to every meeting vs someone who protects time for deep work
The difference isn't effort. It's focus.
Wormholes happen when you:
Set a bold deadline (forces clarity)
Eliminate everything that doesn't serve the goal
Make the scary decision you've been avoiding
Most people avoid wormholes. They feel risky. Uncomfortable.
But that's where the compression happens.
How this connects to intervals
When I started building intervals, I didn't understand this.
I thought the product was about scheduling. About managing calendars.
But that's not what it's about.
Intervals is a wormhole creator.
Every time you set a rule that filters out a meeting you didn't need to take, you compress time.
Every time you let AI say no for you, you eliminate a decision that was slowing you down.
Every time you protect an hour for deep work, you create space for the future to happen faster.
This is what "time is a tool" means in practice.
Not managing your calendar better. Using your calendar to build a different future.
What's new this week
✳️ Smarter voice commands. You can now say things like "what's my most important thing today?" or "block tomorrow morning for deep work" or "push all my non-essential meetings to next week." Intervals understands context now.
🤖 API for your other AI tools. If you're using other AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT, custom agents), they can now talk directly to intervals. Your assistant wants to schedule something? It checks your policies first. Wants to block focus time? It negotiates with your calendar.
This is agent-to-agent coordination. Machines talking to machines based on rules you set once.
→ docs: intervals.so/docs/api
💭 Wisdom this week
"The future is a draft. The past is a draft."
From Time is a Tool.
This hit me hard.
We treat the past like it's fixed. Like it defines us. We treat the future like it's uncertain. Like we can't control it.
But both are drafts. Both can be rewritten.
The past changes meaning based on what you do next. The future changes shape based on what you decide today.
The only thing that's real is the decision you make right now.
If you haven't tried intervals yet, this is the nudge: intervals.so
It's not another calendar app. It's a tool for compressing time.
— Ruzgar
P.S. What's the one decision you've been avoiding that could change everything? Reply and tell me. I read everything.
P.P.S. Know a founder who needs to stop being their own gatekeeper? Forward this → timewealth.club