There is an air of time frittering away, of emptiness and prolonged hesitation.
I want to make sure that I take away from this experience a true understanding of what time is spent on real creativity and what time is frittered away in unnecessary meetings.
As we demonstrated in "Beware the Busy Manager" (HBR February 2002), fully 90% of the managers we observed wasted their time and frittered away their productivity, despite having well-defined projects, goals, and the knowledge necessary to get their jobs done.
Fully 90% of the executives the authors have studied over the past few years wasted their time and frittered away their productivity, despite having well-defined projects, goals, and the necessary knowledge to get their jobs done.
He has 46 minutes an hour to fill; no longer will his time be frittered away on traffic, weather, too many commercials or all those updates, which cut his hourly load at WFAN to 33 or 34 minutes.
And the time I frittered away pools in my stomach as sinking regret about what I could have done.
Like Moment, an app that monitors screen time and sends you or loved ones embarrassing notifications detailing exactly how much time has been frittered away on Instagram today, HabitLab gets to know your patterns uncomfortably well in order to do its job.
Craig Johnson's tender indie comedy, "True Adolescents," examines the interim passages of male lives when time is nervously frittered away and the future looms through the mist like a giant scary question mark.
Spieth was tied with Matt Kuchar, the other competitor in his pairing, and he tried to block out memories of the last time he had frittered away a final-round lead at a major.
With the average student having a one-way commute time of 30 minutes (many rural students commute twice that length of time), this presents an untapped reservoir of time that is usually frittered away.
