The standard we hold ourselves to
This page describes how Sakal Time is made. It is here so that you can decide how much weight to give anything else on the site.
Standards
The route every article on sakaltime.com takes from idea to publication, and what we refuse to publish.
This page describes how Sakal Time is made. It is here so that you can decide how much weight to give anything else on the site.
A draft goes through four hands worth of work. The writer separates what they know from what they assume. The assumptions are either checked against something nameable or deleted. What is left gets written up. Then a second person reads it looking only for overconfidence, which is the failure this subject invites most.
Bylines are real people with real archives attached. If you disagree with a piece, you can see what else the same person has written and judge accordingly.
Sam Wickfield, Productivity and systems writer. Sam writes about the systems and habits that help people work better without burning out. He is interested in what actually changes behaviour rather than what sounds good in a productivity book, and his writing reflects years of testing ideas in real life.
Claire Donovan, Habits and lifestyle writer. Claire covers the intersection of habits, routines and everyday wellbeing. She writes for people who want to make lasting changes without overhauling their whole life, and draws on behavioural research to explain why small shifts often matter more than big ones.
Theo Bassett, Focus and planning writer. Theo writes about attention, planning and the mental side of getting things done. He is particularly interested in how people protect their focus in environments designed to fragment it, and what planning systems actually hold up under pressure.
We earn from some outbound links. That pays for hosting and research time, and it does not decide the verdict of any page.
Requests to soften a verdict are declined, and we keep them on file. More than one has become the subject of its own paragraph later.
Published means published. We do not bump dates to look active, and an edit only changes the modified date when it changes what the article actually tells you to do.
A subject earns a page when somebody has asked about it twice, or when we went looking for the answer ourselves and came back empty handed.
Write to [email protected] with the page address and what is wrong. Factual errors are fixed quickly. If the correction changes the conclusion of a piece, we add a short note at the foot of the page rather than quietly editing it.