40,423 events. One life, on a grid.
40,423 calendar events since 2011 on one grid: work above the line, life below it. The meetings arc from 3.4 to 28.8 a week, 327 flights, and the join between meeting load and resting heart rate.
Work above the line, life below it
Grid format inspired by cv.nickspitzer.com
Each cell is one quarter, shaded by that row's own scale — concurrent events count once (priority to the realest thing in the slot), and sport/personal blockers are stripped from the work half. Read it like tree rings: fundraising lights up in 2014, 2016 and 2019 — the rounds. Big rooms grow as the company does. Deep-work blocks explode after 2020 (calendar defense, learned the hard way). Below the line: the 2020 bike spike, the 2025 run pivot, family since 2021 — and 2026, where the top half goes quiet and the bottom half doesn't.
Three meeting-hours a week. Then 29. Then 6.
ETH lab, 2011: 3.4 h/week in meetings. Peak Beekeeper, 2019: 28.8. First year after the exit: 6.0 — and the difference is what built everything on this site.
Real meeting time, cleaned: overlapping events merged so a double-booked hour counts once, and 6,155 sport/personal blockers that lived in the work calendar are excluded. 2019 remains the heaviest year on record.
My calendar shows up in my resting heart rate
Join cleaned meeting load against 110 months of overnight resting HR: r = +0.44, and the staircase is perfectly monotonic. A maxed-out calendar costs four beats per minute, every night.
Units are per MONTH: 120–150 meeting-hours a month ≈ 28–35 h a week — there were 18 such months, all deep in scale-up years. Quiet months (0–30 h) average 46.1 bpm; the 120–150 h months average 50.4. Part of it is mediated — heavy meeting months crowd out training — but that's exactly the point: the calendar is upstream of the body. Google Calendar has one half, Garmin has the other. Only the lake has both.
327 take-offs on the record
Extracted from calendar entries — Tripit imports (2011), hand-written "Flug nach Barcelona" (the startup years), Gmail auto-events (2018+). Honest caveat: it's a floor, not a ceiling — 2012 and 2016–17 flights mostly lived in email, not the calendar. Peak on record: 2024, fifty-nine legs.