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"well spent" Definitions
  1. worth having been used : worth the time money, etc.

585 Sentences With "well spent"

How to use well spent in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "well spent" and check conjugation/comparative form for "well spent". Mastering all the usages of "well spent" from sentence examples published by news publications.

It's nice to see a $90 million budget well spent.
"I think that our program is tax dollars well spent."
But not everyone thinks the money has been well spent.
On Thursday, the NRA said it was money well spent.
What's rewarding is that sense of seeing time well spent.
Trust us, it will most certainly be time well spent.
"Spending time with Florence was time well spent," he says.
This is $10 very well spent for the home viewer.
For me, $80 is well spent for peace of mind.
If you find yourself indulging, it'll be money well spent.
And, yes, that would be money very well spent everywhere.
In that case, for a billionaire, it's money well spent.
His catchphrases, like "Time Well Spent," have become industry mantras.
Appearance may not be everything, but this is money well spent.
Helping is how I justify my time here is well spent.
Reid insists the program was money well spent at the time.
It is not as if the money has been well spent.
It was expensive, but he felt it was money well spent.
Some might be well spent on teaching the virtues of tolerance.
And for a true fan, that knowledge is $14 well spent.
This came as part of its drive for Time Well Spent.
"But it is money well spent on our educators," he said.
He even gave his radical movement a name: Time Well Spent.
Unlike cigarettes, smartphones and Time Well Spent features won't kill us.
"What we really want to go for is time well-spent." 
For America's older citizens, it's time well spent to utilize one.
Could this allotment of the federal budget be well-spent elsewhere?
And money devoted to defeating President Trump is money well spent.
And for its newly reduced price of $69.99, that's money well spent
I spend $19 in total, which I count as money well spent.
He considers his time in the Australian correctional center well spent, however.
How they respond will determine whether the commission's time was well spent.
In fact, her lace front remains in tact — settlement money well spent?
With Apple and Google, these "time well spent" features make more sense.
By comparison, the money we've given NATO is a well-spent pittance.
But it's money she and her husband believe has been well spent.
This gift guide is to help make that time more well spent.
If you really, really hate public speaking, consider this money well spent.
" "Not incidentally, all that time in my father's office was well spent.
The story itself is worth reading in full — it's 15 minutes well-spent.
Zuckerberg's stated approach to boosting Time Well Spent is far from game-changing.
At just $100 each, Hasbro's new role play accessories are money well spent.
The "time well spent" movement that's sweeping tech may be coming to Facebook.
Turns out all that time spent playing with LEGO was time well spent.
But the crossword is the tweed-wearing grandpappy of passive time well spent.
Happy holidays to you, and here's to time well spent together in 2019.
It's well-spent, productive time that's preparing you for your next big challenge.
Co-Watching could finally provide an answer to Instagram's Time Well Spent problem.
This air fryer isn't cheap but for me, it was money well spent.
But he came to believe that the money was not always well spent.
It is about the positive role of well-spent money in the economy.
There are investors who want to ensure their money is being well spent.
They cofounded Time Well Spent, an organization on smartphone dependence, back in 2015.
We'll talk about that more and what you're doing with Time Well Spent.
Facebook can't offer "time well spent," unless it retools its ad-driven business model.
McGurk acknowledged a review was underway to ensure U.S. taxpayer dollars were well spent.
With Time Well Spent, they, all of a sudden Apple did its Screen Time.
But you know what I don't hate, time well spent with these beautiful boys.
It's a great movie—albeit not perfect—so just consider it money well spent.
Many of them were investors, watching to see if there money was well-spent.
But real estate mogul Sean Conlon says a door can be $16,500 well spent.
Time Well Spent features turn the tables on the problem of screen time addiction.
Snap is waking up to the "Time Well Spent" movement Facebook is already addressing.
It's time well spent to get the technology right to fulfill its enormous promise.
So know that taking the time in these seven ways is time well spent.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been pushing "time well spent" for almost eight months.
Or that time spent in the company of another isn't always time well spent.
"My time here was well spent," Mr. Khalilzad said as he left the talks.
If the recently released main theme is any indication, Howard's time was time well spent.
It makes me very, very happy because now all of that time was well spent.
Along the way, Harris began using the phrase "time well spent" to describe his goal.
I do want to get to ... What do you think the ... With Time Well Spent?
GRAHAM: So when you&aposre training together with your allies, it&aposs money well spent.
I am very confident it would be well spent in the final crucial 5 days.
We strongly believe that this is a price worth paying and is money well spent.
A fraction of the enforcement budget well spent on economic development would reduce migration pressure.
Everyone wins: You, the viewer, are happy knowing that your time was truly well spent.
Not everyone shares the view that laying on a party is money well spent, however.
This is a large sum, but money well spent in the city's $89 billion budget.
"It was money well spent," said Robert Mandell, another former ambassador and Buttigieg fund-raiser.
Whatever we can do to speed up the learning process will be effort well spent.
That if I make a positive difference for one person, the day was well spent.
The Time Well Spent movement has proposed a "Hippocratic Oath for technology:" first, do no harm.
Ahead, we talked to Awkwafina about her fave hangouts for a weekend well spent across boroughs.
The Eye (New Vessel Press, 2018) is a singularly gracious account of his well-spent life.
With automatic ad blocking, business owners should rely heavily on filters to assure time well spent.
Left unchecked, the "Time Well Spent" movement could metastasize into a "Time to leave Facebook" movement.
Anytime a GOP candidate appears to be at war with the media is time well-spent.
That's not necessarily a bad thing — so long as it gets, shall we say, well spent.
Try Nigella Lawson's recipe for seared fish with toasted almonds instead, 20 minutes very well spent.
"We're not talking about a lot of money and it's money well spent," Mr. Hikind said.
First, it hits back against the recent time well-spent activity tracking movement from Silicon Valley.
" In a post, Zuckerberg wrote, "We can help make sure that Facebook is time well spent.
And if they help Democratic candidates win, Hoover and Dutta view it as money well spent.
"Italian quality at Chinese prices," explained Brad Bennett, who runs the men's wear site Well Spent.
Yet it's inevitable that not all this largess will reach Harvey's victims, or be well spent.
It&aposs not the cheapest way to do my taxes, but it&aposs money well spent.
It was money they must think was well spent, because look at the mess we're in.
Before I left, I gave a TED talk to introduce this concept of Time Well Spent.
He founded a nonprofit whose name, Time Well Spent, was also a mission statement and a meme.
" Five months later, Newton published a follow-up piece called " The Time Well Spent Debate Is Over.
I'm going to back up just slightly to Time Well Spent because it co-opted, too. Yep.
You might not be there long, so make sure the time you do have is well spent.
I buy two new pairs at the beginning of every fall — it is $56 incredibly well spent.
Congress should feel confident that U.S. Government resources will be well spent and have an immediate impact.
YOU KNOW – KERNEN: WAS THE MONEY WELL SPENT IN BUYING BACK SOME OF THE PERSHING SQUARE STOCK?
I buy two new pairs at the beginning of every fall — it is $56 incredibly well spent.
But anyone who can't get enough of the binge-worthy drama knows that it's money well spent.
Throw in some bread and spread plus a jug of sangria, and your day is well spent.
Then again, a Basquiat sold for $110.5 million at auction last year, so that was well spent.
"Spending time in his company is well spent because he's got an amazing political mind," Blair said.
My moments with plants felt like phone time well spent, a quality that Screen Time can't distinguish.
Instead of remorse over a holiday season well spent, the best medicine may be a simple shift.
We now pay $103 a month each for term life insurance — and it&aposs money well spent.
But it's also not explicitly to help you spend your time well, according to Time Well Spent.
CN: This sort of gets to what I want to talk about with the Time Well Spent stuff.
Time Well Spent founder Tristan Harris says the time to wean those companies off of ads is now.
Donors want to know that their money is being well spent ("food" is in WFP's name, after all).
In short, if you're okay with lots of bass in your sound, this could be $250 well spent.
Considering The Side Photography Business Bundle is on sale for only $29, we think it's money well spent
Tristan Harris' first big idea for the tech industry, the Time Well Spent movement, was an outsized success.
But I believe his coinage of the phrase "time well spent" helped to catalyze, and accelerate, the movement.
Hey, if they get Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to open the ship, then that's money well spent.
The "Time Well Spent" movement put pressure on the company to prove that social apps benefit their users.
That describes me, though, and I would say this is money well-spent if you're anything like me.
In fact, Facebook could actually earn money or at least break even from the "Time Well Spent" changes.
There must be more than lip service to the concept of time well spent and digital well-being.
This is hard to argue with, and the plaintiffs concede that only well-spent extra money could help.
A play that gives them the space and the hours to do their work is time well spent.
Even though I was living at home, I was determined to make sure it was time well spent.
This presentation would inform the Time Well Spent nonprofit, which Harris left Google to run in December 2015.
" He added: "Improving the aging infrastructure and preventing loss of life from typhoon damage is money well spent.
We call our thing Time Well Spent, because that's a good encapsulation ... Talk about the actual physical thing.
But when I look at the end result and see Nellee's joy, I think it was money well spent.
She's also a founding adviser of the Center for Humane Technology, the group behind the "Time Well Spent" movement.
He was formerly a design ethicist at Google and started a movement combating tech addiction called Time Well Spent.
You got a ton of attention for Time Well Spent, and again, addiction was the biggest part of it.
Tristan Harris, a former Google employee, has been on a months-long tour promoting his "Time Well Spent" initiative.
Not only hasn't email died — the tech industry's current focus on Time Well Spent might have made it stronger.
It posited a clear-eyed future in which the fruits of a well-spent life remain at your disposal.
Tech executives have talked about the concept of "time well spent," but overall, the push hasn't been terribly effective.
Ms. Poole's movers charged a higher rate for her high floor, "but it was money well spent," she said.
"The time the leaders spent together is time well spent," Biegun said as he expressed optimism over future talks.
I would argue a five-year deal for the NFL is money well spent to drive Verizon's sports strategies.
It doesn't look to donors like their money is well-spent, even if it's impactful in the long run.
Would adrenaline and excitement course through your every fibre as you mentally prepare to relive a left well spent?
But I've learned it's the one place where the money can be well spent, and public oversight is critical.
Facebook has said it will make changes to its algorithms to favor "time well spent" over just time spent.
That may be money well spent if they contribute to better health, something that has not yet been documented.
It also means that dollars spent on great health insurance for you and the team is money well spent.
Tristan started the nonprofit called Time Well Spent, which consults with various companies about ways to make apps healthier.
A.I.D.'s "soft power" approach costs American taxpayers a few cents per tax dollar, and is money well spent.
In response to the Time Well Spent movement, the company voluntarily introduced in-app screen time limits earlier this year.
On this episode of Recode Decode, Mullenweg calls for a "Time Well Spent"-style movement for ads and data privacy.
According to various audits and reports of a few years ago, not all those funds have always been well spent.
Instagram is jumping into the time well spent movement, following the unveiling of Google's new time management controls last week.
Either way, these films mean way more to people than a couple of hours well spent at a movie theater.
Instagram is turning the Time Well Spent philosophy into features to help users avoid endless scrolling and distraction by notifications.
Even if investors in SoftBank approve of the idea, they will worry about whether the money will be well spent.
Her past findings include Instagram's video calling, music soundtracks and Time Well Spent dashboard, months before they were officially released.
I think the best thing we can do today is actually to do more of that time well spent stuff.
I believe every executive at every tech company has said "time well spent" at some point in the last year.
Hopefully with time, Facebook gives the dashboard more nuance so we can track not just time, but time well spent.
He leaves Google to focus on a nonprofit he's founded called Time Well Spent, and he starts talking to reporters.
Facebook was the first to react with an attempt to turn its image around through the time well spent credo.
It in fact directly co-opted the 'Time Well Spent' motto for itself, in name as well as in intention.
I hope the groups fighting to get this money will work just as hard to ensure it is well spent.
So what is really going on when figuring out if your renovation was money well-spent requires some mental mathematics.
Don't squander your moneyI learned the importance of respecting your money and making sure that every dollar was well spent.
But Kaneisha Grayson, a HBS grad and founder and CEO of The Art of Applying, thinks its time well spent.
And, although I hate paying for insurance, at about $150 a month the umbrella policy seemed like money well spent.
Over the last four years, I've attended almost all of them, and win or lose, each was money well spent.
"You'll get the customization that's a trademark of luxury vacations, and your money will be well spent," Mr. Stergiou said.
Felser, a serial entrepreneur, hopes the benefit signals to founders that time spent on self-care is time well spent.
An incredible amount of polling and messaging goes into presidential campaigns and more often than not, it's money well spent.
"Investing in Hulu right now is probably money well spent and should not significantly impair [Disney's] balance sheet," Bonner said.
Read on to see the U.S. News' top-rated global destinations, where your hard-earned money will be well-spent.
Time Well Spent is a movement that sprung up in reaction to people's seemingly unhealthy addiction to their digital devices.
Kara Swisher: Today in the red chair I am happy to have Tristan Harris, the founder of Time Well Spent.
Now, with all his talk of "time well spent," it seems as if he's trying to co-opt Tristan Harris too.
The feature, introduced last year in response to Tristan Harris' Time Well Spent movement, was supposed to help counteract tech addiction.
For more on Facebook's struggle with Time Well Spent, check out our feature piece: "The difference between good and bad Facebooking."
The company is not alone in thinking about time well spent, even if it doesn't understand what it's doing about it.
The unchecked growth of technology is like climate change, says tech ethics advocate and Time Well Spent co-creator Tristan Harris.
They reinforce neoliberal ideals, privileging the on-the-move individual whose time needs to be well spent— a neatly consumerist metaphor.
And Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos is banking on the idea that viewers will think that was money well spent.
Well, I think our responsibility here is to make sure that the time people spend on Facebook is time well spent.
While Clinton arguably performed better later in his administration, few think that his first year in office was especially well-spent.
He says he used the money for a pair of Nike Air Force 1s and drama school ... so money well spent.
Light cigarettes, diet food, and seatbelts have some suspect similarities, but also crucial differences, with tech companies' Time Well Spent features.
The Edge feels like a place the young Langston would like, full of verse and the murmur of hours well spent.
We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national security.
Instead, it tells outsiders to trust it when it tells them that the billions it invests in content is well spent.
A random sampling of comments from the public suggests not everyone is convinced that digging on Mars is money well spent.
Although cleaning and proper storage can be a bit labor intensive, experts say that maintaining precious pieces is time well spent.
It also signals the investor&aposs belief that time spent on self-care, away from a computer, is time well spent.
But if you are curious and want to drink better, more distinctive wines, the slightly higher price is money well spent.
The tug of war over the phrase "time well spent" is another good indication of the tech industry's rhetoric-and-see attitude.
You're considering the ways you seek justice for and in your community, and whether your energy is well spent in your relationships.
As we reported, Fetty dropped $80k for his new set of shiners and his nonstop smile says it all ... money well spent.
Rating: If you were sponsored by the feeling of a rainy day during your vacation that's well-spent indoors with good friends.
With his daughter-in-law put up in a new residence with his granddaughter, though, Mike's painfully-earned money seems well spent.
Although Iran is unlikely to be most voters' main reason for choosing a candidate, strategists said the money could be well spent.
Far from a solution to its "time well spent" initiative, the in-app calculator is little more than graphically enhanced window dressing.
"It's great that Zuck was made aware of 'time well spent' and felt it was important enough to repeat it," he said.
Fonda is pointing out that time away from the spotlight doesn't mean much of anything if the time away isn't well-spent.
In the meantime, though, it seems like all of those research dollars being funneled into perfecting CRISPR may be money well spent.
But it's easy to co-opt "time well spent" as a value once you've already captured the attention of 2.2 billion users.
If we can go back to the beginning for a moment, time is luxury, sure, but it's also about time well spent.
Yet the way that Time Well Spent diverges from light cigarettes and diet food may actually be the biggest indictment of all.
"I don't think our focus on false news and integrity morphed into time well spent," says Adam Mosseri, VP of news feed.
Kind of like the vegetables from a batch of stock, they give all their goodness to the liquid, and they're, well, spent.
Even if you only save a fraction of this, a $200 savings is money that can be well spent (or saved) elsewhere.
Democrats, in turn, dislike the regressivity of excise taxes but might go along if they believe the money will be well-spent.
He added that it was money well spent since the operations proved the abilities of the modernized army, navy and air force.
Digital Detox's new CEO says he's heartened by the progression of some of Felix's ideals, as with the Time Well Spent movement.
There are activists like Tristan Harris of Time Well Spent, who is trying to move the tech world in the right directions.
I considered the many hours he spent regularly in an infusion chair as the blood slowly dripped in, time now well spent.
That's at least in part because giving away billions of dollars while ensuring the money is well-spent is a hard task.
If buying a chunk of Mr. Scaramucci's business has even a chance of offsetting that, HNA may consider it money well spent.
That's money well spent in another way, too: The center provides after-school tutoring to homeless and other underserved young New Yorkers.
We'll talk about that and more when we come back with Tristan Harris, who is leading a movement called Time Well Spent.
While that's a serious investment, it would be money well spent, with a state budget that was nearly $170 billion last year.
Americans elected Trump, in part, because they wanted to make sure that the billions that we spend overseas are billions very well spent.
But despite efforts of the "Time Well Spent" movement, the amount of time we spend on our smartphones is continuing to tick up.
So that's why you called it, going from Time Well Spent which is talking about the addiction issues which are actually physical issues.
The festival is built on a real sense that it will have been a weekend well spent if the Snapchat story says so.
But we shouldn't forget the history of light cigarettes on one hand, and seatbelts on the other, before we embrace Time Well Spent.
Banks, for instance, are a provider of data to analytics firms that gambling companies rely on to ensure advertising dollars are well spent.
Click on to shop the things we're buying this weekend, and yes, browsing these pages does count as a weekend night well-spent.
Recently, though, the company has put a bigger stress on encouraging and measuring "time well spent" instead of just total time on Facebook.
When Salesforce bought MuleSoft last spring for the tidy sum of $6.5 billion, it looked like money well spent for the CRM giant.
Unlike financial investments, which ebb and flow with the market, any time, energy and money you put toward bettering yourself is well spent.
I'd surely never see my deposit for Ireland again, but the cost of my week at La Pitchoune had been money well spent.
I refused to walk away from this one until I had solved it, which is always a good sign of time well spent.
Having a set schedule to sit at a desk or show up on-site does not equate to efficiency or money well spent.
The role of government agencies is to ensure that public money is well spent and that there is minimal fraud and zero abuse.
A doubling or even a tripling of congressional staff budgets — especially if it goes to oversight — would be money very, very well spent.
One man who sees it as money well spent is Dameion Brown, a former Solano inmate who acted in the Shakespeare program's first year.
Whether you're looking for a Father's Day gift or a fun way to refuel your brain at work, it's a small investment well spent.
App Limits will let you set time limits on the apps that are more time sinks than time well spent (looking at you, Instagram).
And it wasn't time particularly well spent: The questions were muddled, the discussion was shallow, and most viewers probably didn't come away better informed.
"If people lack trust, that means they worry that their hard-earned money is not being well spent when donated to charities," said Pinkney.
The weapon won't strike fear into anyone's heart, but any opportunity you get to play with a Tesla coil is obviously time well spent.
I could stare at Mindy staring at B.J. staring at Mindy for the rest of my days and would consider my life well spent.
But perhaps more importantly, it's one of the app's first publicly tested features that's clearly designed with the "time well spent" movement in mind.
To Zuckerberg, "time well spent" means independent research showing that people value the time they spend on Facebook, and feel better about themselves afterward.
"If I can help some of our candidates raise a little money and get a little enthusiasm, it'll be time well spent," Graham said.
And let's also concede that some of any tax he would have paid would not be well spent by the government, as he asserts.
Expect to run into past lovers, but hold off on any makeovers…money spent at a salon during Venus retrograde is not well spent!
"A separate issue is how they spend their time, and whether or not the time is well spent on this Russian situation," Scott said.
"Every second spent removing content which can only be sourced to Breitbart is well spent," one editor wrote in support of the new rule.
Instagram last month introduced its first time well spent feature, by informing users "you're all caught up" when they've viewed all the new posts.
Puerto Rico later created a recovery agency and agreed to additional oversight, though some residents remain skeptical that the money will be well-spent.
Dr. Tedros will need to move swiftly to bring transparency and accountability to the W.H.O., and to demonstrate that every dollar is well spent.
The theory is simple: A dime well spent on high quality design improves the likelihood of spending the next taxpayer dollar wisely on construction.
And considering just how much money is on the table with a job in the field, we think 34 bucks is money well spent
So I spent about as long researching the topic as I spent working on the grid, and found all of that time well spent.
" He thinks it's time well spent: "Though [AdS] doesn't describe our world, it will teach us some lessons that will guide us where to go.
They have pointed to reviews by national security agencies and another by the Office of Management and Budget to ensure the funds were well-spent.
His terms, like the need to focus on "Time Well Spent," have been adopted (or perhaps co-opted) by, among others, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
I'd have to guess this is one of the largest fees ever paid to an architect, and I wonder if it was money well-spent.
That's money well spent — your rate pales in comparison to what it would cost to rebuild your house and replace your belongings after a disaster.
When I look at that picture you subjected to "caption this" criticism, I see a day well-spent writing, reading, having tea with a friend.
The music video features footage from the Netflix drama's first season mashed together perfectly with the words to Simple Minds' 1980s classic — time well spent.
Talking about the attention economy or time well spent didn't capture the true ability of modern technology to dismantle free will and create social anomie.
And Tristan Harris reappeared on TV to criticize Facebook directly, calling it a "living, breathing crime scene" — and advocate for his solution, time well spent.
The commission said the problem is that defense budgets are not well spent and more than $28 billion is lost every year through poor cooperation.
Higher ceilings generally translate into higher construction costs, but some developers feel the money is well spent, since high ceilings can help create grander spaces.
When you think of time well spent online, when you think about people getting more control over how they put their attention and their time.
By the time the Thompsons moved in this past summer, they had spent about $1.5 million, and it was money well spent, Ms. Thompson said.
"So we hope that the time spent on Facebook, though overall it will go down, is time well-spent or time better spent," Mosseri said.
Finally, re-calibrate your own expectations, as well as those of family and friends, towards that time well spent, rather than big parties or gifts.
But from a business perspective, it's important that their time is well spent, or they won't use our services as much over the long term.
"I had no idea why that topic was being raised and quickly determined that my time was not well spent at this meeting," Kushner writes.
"I started to look at our trials and what kinds of policies we had, to make sure investments in clinical trials were well spent," Hudson says.
Those discussions led tech companies themselves to buy into the "time well spent" movement (even as they continued to undermine the trust users place in them).
"We&aposre always working on new ways to help make sure people&aposs time on Facebook is time well spent," a company spokesperson told the publication.
Facebook and Instagram are jumping on the "time well spent" bandwagon with their own features that help you spend less time on Facebook and Instagram. Why?
"Last quarter, we made changes to show fewer viral videos to make sure people's time is well spent," he said at the top of the release.
Deep hydration, SPF coverage, and diminished fine lines are a pump away, and while it's not the cheapest of drugstore finds, it's definitely money well-spent.
Facebook's goal is to increase time well spent and well-being, even at the cost of total time spent and ad views in the short term.
He said that Zuckerberg's affinity for Time Well Spent was "dishonest" given the incentives of Facebook's business model, which depends on selling users' attention to advertisers.
Mark Zuckerberg's use of the phrase "time well spent" in a January Facebook post could have been seen as a possible step toward less addictive tech.
In 2016, Tristan Harris, whose job title at Google was "design ethicist," left the company to focus on a new nonprofit he called Time Well Spent.
And while the tug-of-war over "time well spent" is likely to continue, the moral advantage still belongs to the folks that coined the term.
And worse yet, it is "preventative" money that is often not thought of as "well-spent," since the mark of success is a lack of failure.
But if, like Churchill, you think the party is headed down the wrong track on several key issues, time in the wilderness could be well spent.
Like last summer, each edition will direct you to a New York City neighborhood and provide a game plan for an afternoon or evening well spent.
Harris, previously best known for his association with the Time Well Spent movement, compares the unchecked rise of tech to the "catastrophic" future of climate change.
And if that pays off in November, as my colleague Jason Linkins has suggested, burning through millions every single day will have been money well spent.
These companies all became fluent in the language of "time well spent," a movement to design technology that respects users' time and doesn't exploit their vulnerabilities.
But it is safe to say that if the Global Fund receives all the cash that it has been promised, it will be money well spent. ■
I wanted to wake up in the morning and head to my shaded beachfront cabana without any hassle or stress, so this money was well spent.
All the hours of video, all the pages of the report, all the meticulously sculpted training sessions had been worth it; a long week well spent.
Even the phrase "time well spent" was copied from Tristan Harris, the former Google design ethicist trying to spread the word about the dangers of addictive technology.
Harris spent several years working at Google, and he now runs a nonprofit called Time Well Spent, from which he has launched a battle against social media.
Essentially, he said, the commission on every sale is money well spent because the tech giant provides traffic, customer service, and other services to third-party sellers.
He promised the government would work hard over the coming months to prove to the world their aid and sacrifice in blood and treasure was well spent.
And I'm not mad these same people are getting that content for free; it's money I consider well spent for the value I received at the time.
After announcing a new "time well spent" metric for Facebook in January, Mark Zuckerberg was forced to go on an apology tour over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
For those who only knew the cinematic image, it's well worth taking the peek she offered behind the camera, and into a tragic but well-spent life.
Time Well Spent morphed into the Center for Humane Technology, and Harris started grasping for a new meme that was equal to the scope of the crisis.
Taking weeks of extra time to get a historical decision right that future generations will have to live with for decades is time well spent for Britain.
It's not exactly the healthy digital balance that everybody's been striving for this past year since we all started talking about Time Well Spent, but it's something.
Even Mark Zuckerberg's mission for 2018 is "to make sure the time we all spend on Facebook is time well spent," a clear reference to Harris' work.
He turned "time well spent" into a cogent philosophy, one that everyone could get behind: We spend too much time on our phones, and on social media.
It took "over 10 years, about $42 million and we think it's money well spent," said Bernero, who later ran for governor and lost to Rick Snyder.
Despite the errors, the Republican party can be happy that the $150,000 to promote its online voting functionality was well-spent, resulting in higher-than-expected traffic.
Once you know exactly what you need to learn, you can make sure that your time and effort is well-spent towards something that will pay off.
You might also want to consider some tips from Time Well Spent, an organization dedicated to making technology fit better into human lives rather than the reverse.
Proponents of modern asylums insist that this kind of money is well spent, considering the alternatives for people with mental disabilities in prison or on the streets.
So dazzled was I with the crossing center that I am still smiling after solving it, and that, my friends, is a sign of time well spent.
Time is well spent with Steve Bishop's morning-after tableau and Stuart Middleton's animation, "I am just going outside, I may be," about a lonely little boy.
However, Facebook deserves a fair amount of blame, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in a blog post earlier this year, directly referencing the Time Well Spent movement.
We spent the night in a suite, and while lovely, your money is just as well spent in a more affordable Superior Queen, which feels equally iconic.
In the case of Facebook, the company has been focusing on a new metric, called "time well spent," following criticisms that the social network is bad for society.
He promised the government would work hard over the coming months to prove to other countries that their aid and sacrifice in blood and treasure were well spent.
The change aligns with CEO Mark Zuckerberg's recent comments declaring that Facebook's goal isn't total time spent, but time well spent with meaningful content you feel good about.
When we first reported on Usage Insights, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom tweeted a link to the article, confirming that Instagram was getting behind the Time Well Spent movement.
"Brands should be additive and trying to add to the person's experience, so it's a net benefit — it's time well spent rather than distraction," she told the audience.
So we were in this same tiny little room talking about this and it was way before people were thinking about it, this idea of Time Well Spent.
It's all so predictably unpredictable — and what Tristan Harris, the co-founder of the nonprofit group Time Well Spent, calls a world dominated by the race for attention.
I think the ad money -- it could be well spent possibly, but I think that him directing the NIH to do that is probably the most effective part.
TechDen fights your kids' tech addiction using... a box TechDen is a $119 box and maybe the first Kickstarter gadget to emerge from the Time Well Spent movement.
But if you want to cut back on your one-off Amazon buys or spur-of-the-moment online purchases, the Time Well Spent Chrome extension can help.
Lewis says that the extension was inspired by the Time Well Spent movement, which calls on tech companies to integrate time and attention management features into their products.
Many of them will not believe they were manipulated unless Facebook tells them, said Tristan Harris of Time Well Spent, an organization critical of advertising-based social media.
What Time Well Spent features really do is re-frame the screen addiction issue in a way that benefits tech companies, and does not necessarily help tech users.
Many of the gains from partner force training missions take years to surface in a tangible way that lawmakers can point to as evidence of money well-spent.
Watch More from Tonic: And settlement money would be well spent on helping to cut the absurd red tape that further restricts availability of these life-saving drugs.
Mosseri replied that while they don't track addiction they track a user's sentiment, and try to understand if people think their News Feed experience is time well spent.
Facebook wants to turn mindless, passive video consumption into "time well spent," and now it's giving social media stars a powerful tool to foster communities around their content.
The dollars don't appear to be well-spent, said Dr. Joseph Dieleman of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington's School of Medicine.
I caught up on emails during my 14-minute, $45.03 stay, and although it was time well-spent, more natural light would have made that time more pleasant.
"Commercial health plans and their enrollees depend on the validity of federal provider identification systems in order to ensure that patients' dollars are well spent," the senators wrote.
But he added that "after a few updates and patches, I considered my pledge money well spent and anything else that came from the game was a bonus."
Two FTC commissioners even wrote a dissenting opinion, warning that the settlement could encourage other companies to conclude that the price of false advertising is money well spent.
"They want to make sure the passenger feels his or her time and money is well spent," said Henry Harteveldt, a travel industry analyst at Atmosphere Travel Group.
"I quickly determined that my time was not well-spent at this meeting, and that the meeting was a waste of our time," Kushner wrote in a statement.
Devised by Gluck+, the New York architecture firm, the clubhouse and courts are stylish in the way that somebody with disposable income would regard as money well spent.
The job post says OM is specifically looking for recent college grads whose idea of a "year well spent" is being behind the wheel of the famous vehicle.
In terms of Time Well Spent, we want to bring together the leadership of those people who really care about having that conversation together to talk about it.
Smith's narration alternates between sections called "Eighth Grade" and hallucinatory sections rendering Sam's three days in the well, spent with a snarky armadillo (this is Texas) named Bartleby.
Most Norwegians, eager to do more to cut local pollution from traffic in cities, and short of other ways to lower carbon emissions, reckon this is money well spent.
If you're not familiar with Time Well Spent, there's this guy Tristan Harris, he was a former design ethicist at Google, I think he's been on your show, Kara.
Tristan Harris, the former design ethicist for Google, popularized "time well spent" as a contrast to apps like Facebook that "hijack our minds" and distract us from our priorities.
" It argued "we cannot continue to ask taxpayers and Medicare beneficiaries to pay for exorbitantly priced prescription drugs without any consideration of whether their money is being well-spent.
This delicate and awkward balance between utility and health is arguably Silicon Valley's greatest challenge as it grapples with an existential crisis over "time well spent" on our devices.
Most, I expect, will spend at least part of the day focused on their role in the future of American society and the world — and that's time well spent.
It also features appearances from a handful of high-profile commentators, including Time Well Spent co-founder Tristan Harris, Kernal CEO Bryan Johnson, and Duke University ethicist Nita Farahany.
The report estimated that the cost of taking global action on AMR "is up to $40 billion over a ten-year period" but that it was money well-spent.
If you experience chronic neck pain or headaches, you'd probably pay anything to alleviate some of that tension, which makes the Neck Hammock's $50 price tag money well spent.
To know that your money is actually money well spent — and could potentially change the life of someone in need — ensures a near zero percent chance of buyer's remorse.
A nonprofit organization called Time Well Spent, led by a former Google design ethicist, is pressuring tech companies to move away from products that try to hook people's attention.
In the summer of 20, former Google employee Tristan Harris started making the media rounds, arguing for the need for a new ethics in technology design: Time Well Spent.
But with Android now offering time management tools and many urging Apple to do the same, the time-well-spent reckoning may be dawning upon the mobile app ecosystem.
We also need to make sure that money is well-spent, which means governments, donors, global health professionals and providers collaborate on financing and continuously integrate activities and systems.
Time spent YouTubing Marcelo Garcia is time well spent and scarcely a week goes by without some high profile MMA fighter making the pilgrimage to his New York gym.
But a year after Big Tech rolled out their time-well-spent features, it doesn't seem like they're working: The time we spend on our devices just keeps increasing.
That's hard work that few people want to do, but it's money and time well spent—and certainly a better value than whatever it is the billionaire is doing.
"Already last quarter, we made changes to show fewer viral videos to make sure people's time is well spent," Zuckerberg said Wednesday as part of Facebook's quarterly earnings report.
"It is vital that the people paying for the BBC — its viewers and listeners — know where their money is going and that it is being well spent," she said.
Wired's editor-in-chief Nick Thompson spoke with Tristan Harris, the prophet behind the "Time Well Spent" movement that argues are minds are being hijacked by the technology we use.
They hope these will serve to reassure donors that their funds are being well-spent, and could even be used to work out how much aid they should be giving.
I wanted to get the most out of my education and ensure every penny my parents paid for my tuition -- twice as much as local American students -- was well spent.
In other recent Instagram news: First look at Instagram's self-policing Time Well Spent tool Instagram launches IGTV app for creators, 1-hour video uploads Instagram tests questions in Stories
Facebook announced the new dashboards for the Instagram and Facebook apps back in August as part of the "time well-spent" movement that has been sweeping across the tech world.
Say hello to the opposite of time well spent: Now Giphy is announcing that it's refreshing its homepage to prominently feature Stories, which will be curated by an editorial team.
Slack raises $427 million, now valued above $7 billion Sometimes I wonder whether the Time Well Spent movement will ever affect the famously noisy, all-consuming office chat app Slack.
We'll be the first ones to admit $20 is a lot for an umbrella, but when you think of how much you've spent on cheap ones, it's money well spent.
When companies like Facebook check the time-well-spent box with a few cosmetic design changes, they get credit for putting a bandaid on the symptom without addressing the disease.
When I asked why, amidst its big push around Time Well Spent, it was sending these alerts, the company told me it's already in the process of scaling them back.
"Any way that we can improve safety and security in schools is always money well spent," David Lowry, president of the Lockport Education Association, told the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal.
Even factoring in the somewhat underwhelming main cast, I still feel like my time with Fallen Order was well spent and brought a deeper understanding of the Star Wars universe.
Mark Zuckerberg recently made a bunch of changes to Facebook and said he wanted time on the platform to be "time well spent," which is the concept you've been behind.
The two apps — Instagram with a billion-plus users and Facebook with twice that many — are rolling out new "time well spent" features meant to help people fight smartphone addiction.
How tech companies value your attention is a "crisis," Time Well Spent founder Tristan Harris says — and a lot of people in the industry won't even admit it's a problem.
Facebook is making a major change to its product to make sure that people feel like their time on the social network is "well spent," the company announced Thursday evening.
The near-decade-long bet has not been time or money well spent but at least this shows Asahi will now focus on investments where it can wield meaningful control.
What's more, neither Congress nor SBA has accounted for whether the tax incentives targeted to help small businesses grow is money well spent when it comes to women-owned firms.
After months of Mark Zuckerberg talking about how "Protecting our community is more important than maximizing our profits," Facebook is preparing to turn that commitment into a Time Well Spent product.
My break came around the time when Facebook and Instagram introduced "time well spent" features in the summer, which allow users to check how many hours they've spent on social media.
Eighty-eight percent of those who have donated to political campaigns believe the money was well spent, an indication that wealthy donors are prepared to open their wallets again in 2020.
Meanwhile, Facebook has continued to adopt the "Time Well Spent" philosophy, removing click-bait news and crappy viral videos that lead to passive internet content consumption that studies say is unhealthy.
It might be a more elegant solution to having a "time well-spent" phone than picking up a plain Jane feature phone or backing a Kickstarter for an in-betweener phone.
Earlier this year, Harris rebranded Time Well Spent as the Center for Humane Technology, now a coalition of technologists, activists, and concerned citizens fighting to regain power over our personal devices.
"Every dollar we invest in implementing Positive Train Control as quickly as possible is money well spent because ultimately it means fewer accidents and fewer fatalities," FRA Administrator Sarah Feinberg said.
After representatives from the "Time Well Spent" movement appeared on TED, 60 Minutes, and in widespread media coverage, it seemed we were beginning to take the threat of notification overload seriously.
They are resources well spent, considering Medicare spends nearly three times as much on other post-acute care services per beneficiary annually than it does on home health ($85033,259 versus $5,370).
" Buffett touted the BNSF railroad and its leaders Matt Rose and Carl Ice, calling their $5.8 billion of capital spending to improve customer service after a poor 2014 "money well spent.
But when we look at the balance sheet for Medicaid — health benefits, financial security, societal improvements through education — it's not hard to argue that money allocated to Medicaid is well spent.
"It's money well spent, and I think they will be able to scale to margins that look more to AWS in the next three to five years," Walmsley told Business Insider.
"It wasn't until my boys came home from school at 3:30pm, that I found out they had been waaaay late to school," Norton wrote on her blog Time Well Spent.
Twitter's efforts to figure out how to make the platform a safer, healthier place for everyone comes in tandem with Facebook's efforts to ensure time well spent on the social network.
They're talking about digital well-being, and time well spent, and that simply because a person is engaged for a long time, it doesn't necessarily mean they're having a good experience.
Zuckerberg has been touting his new focus on "meaningful connections" and the idea of "time well spent," most recently in a call with investors and analysts after another stellar earnings report.
KS: Tristan Harris is a thing called Time Well Spent and essentially he says all digital issues are time suck and we have to figure out a way to control it.
All you have to do is take a few extra minutes to style before hitting the gym, and that's time well spent if you can avoid the bathroom rush after the cooldown.
Memories are also tied to Facebook's focus on time-well-spent efforts, which aim to increase the focus on quality engagement on Facebook, even if time on site suffers as a result.
Andrew Cuomo made tuition free in his state in 22020 -- Warren's plan is raising questions about who would benefit the most from the plan and whether taxpayer dollars will be well spent.
" Zuckerberg explained that "research shows that interacting with friends and family on social media tends to be more meaningful and can be good for our well-being, and that's time well spent.
Facebook and Instagram also have their own time-well-spent features that monitor how long you're using the apps, allow you to set limits, and block notifications for certain time for periods.
If gathering with a bunch of people in front of a public monument for an hour and yelling until your lungs collapse is your idea of time well spent, you're not alone.
That skeptical and concerned counter-story is the one that was starting to get told — and increasingly spread — before Time Well Spent came along to place the tech industry on our side.
Perhaps that consulting fee will be money well-spent, after all, even if the odds of a long-term gig have to be viewed as long with all the alpha males involved.
But little is known about the care delivered to these people, from how many services they get to which doctors treat them to whether taxpayer money is being well-spent or misused.
She has previously spotted things like Instagram's first time-well-spent feature, Lyft's unlaunched bike or scooter program, Instagram's upgraded two-factor authentication system, new ways of displaying IGTV videos, and more.
"Imagine you run a social network and you're trying to aggregate all the trending stories based on what all users are clicking," Mr. Harris, the Time Well Spent founder, told me recently.
We may never know if that money was well spent or not, though Facebook has been suggested as a key differentiator in helping both Trump and President Barack Obama win past elections.
Time Well Spent, a nonprofit focused on changing our relationships to technology, recommends switching your phone to grayscale to remove the "shiny rewards" that colorful icons give you every time you unlock.
Your time in college was well spent, but if you're expecting to leave campus equipped with all the skills you need to survive in the world, you're going to be sorely disappointed.
To ensure that dollars are well spent, FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers must examine the qualifications of companies or individuals that may stand to benefit from Puerto Rican government contracts.
She previously helped TechCrunch scoop the development of features like Facebook Avatars, Twitter encrypted DMs and Instagram Usage Insights — a Time Well Spent feature that looks very similar to this one on Facebook.
Without access to meaningful data how can we tell whether time spent here or there or on any of these prejudice-pandering advertiser platforms can ever be said to be "time well spent"?
Still, it's quite obvious Acer made this to flex its engineering muscles, and not because anyone but the most affluent and hardcore would think this product was a logical and well-spent $8,2299.
The move to fund news videos not only invalidates Facebook's claims on the "just a tech platform" front, it calls into question how serious the company is about its "time well spent" focus.
When Tech Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself Historian Yuval Noah Harari and Time Well Spent cofounder Tristan Harris discussed the future of artificial intelligence with Wired's editor in chief, Nicholas Thompson.
With returns in equities potentially sub-par for the next decade or more due to demographic and other pressures, pressuring corporate America to run itself better may prove to be money well spent.
So, to me, everything I can do to amplify the visibility of asexuality and aromanticism—if I can save even one person from having to go through that, then it's effort well spent.
There are worries over due diligence — making sure the money is being well-spent — which is tough to track in other countries and remains a potent domestic challenge despite China's anti-corruption crackdown.
"By focusing on bringing people closer together — whether it's with family and friends, or around important moments in the world — we can help make sure that Facebook is time well spent," he wrote.
In a pair of closely argued essays on Medium, Joe Edelman — who says he coined the term "time well spent" with Harris five years ago — lays out a suggested path forward for Facebook.
Now it has to work to preemptively disarm any future privacy crises or other scandals, and co-opt the "Time Well Spent" rallying call before it becomes a "Time to leave Facebook" movement.
"The time Steve Jobs was putting things off and noodling on possibilities was time well spent in letting more divergent ideas come to the table," Wharton professor Adam Grant previously told Business Insider.
"Considering just how bad the news has been lately, the Cone Mills closing is easy to feel unfazed by — or, at least, to lose in the fray," said Mr. Bennett of Well Spent.
Another late night, but I had a heart-to-heart about the future of the company with one of my most senior recruiters after everyone left, so I'm considering it a night well spent.
Google is billing Duplex as a way to promote Time Well Spent™ and lessen language barrier issues so that we can all be free to engage with the world outside our digital screens.
The $999.99 price point is still hard for many to stomach, but your money is well spent for a stunning 3440 x 1440 resolution with 120 Hz refresh rate and 2-millisecond response time.
In a report issued in May, Moody's said that the Games would have a negligible impact on the city's ailing economy but that the $7 billion in transportation-related spending was money well spent.
Each dank track takes anywhere from a few hours to a month to mix, but it's time well spent when it's distracting him from the sinkhole of interest-accruing loans slowly eating him alive.
It'll cost you $45 more than that sketchy Hero 5 Black, but since you're getting a legitimately new device (with newer features at that), we think it's safe to call it money well spent.
"With Time Well Spent, we want technology that cares about helping us spend our time, and our lives, well -- not seducing us into the most screen time, always-on interruptions or distractions," Harris says.
"While all these exuberant festivities and gatherings allow us to have fun and mingle, at a deeper level, the Sagittarian-ruled month is a time well-spent on self-reflection and philosophizing," Montúfar adds.
It also doesn't seem like JetBlue is doing this to promote Time Well Spent, per se, since it's encouraging travelers to refill their blank Instagram pages with more travel photos should they win the sweepstakes.
The company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has written numerous times that the company is now focusing on "time well spent" on the platform (even though few inside Facebook seem to know how to define that metric).
Prices top out at $550, and since the company is working directly with mostly New York-based factories, you'll know that whatever piece you end up buying will be a few hundred dollars well spent.
Patreon could lock the mid-tail of smaller (but still established) creators into its ecosystem, which means more consumer engagement, more time well spent, and more revenue through both ads and fan-to-creator transactions.
Interface designers, app-makers and social-media firms employ armies of designers to keep people coming back, according to Tristan Harris, another ex-Googler and co-founder of an advocacy group called "Time Well Spent".
Zuckerberg and other executives have been warning for months that Facebook's efforts to retool News Feed to promote "time well spent" and new GDPR regulations would ultimately result in less growth and fewer ad dollars.
Back in January, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a vow to increase the "time well-spent" on the social media network, in part by increasing the quality of the news that appears on users' feeds.
And so far, you know, with the Time Well Spent stuff, for example, it's let's help people, because they're vulnerable to how much time they spend, set a limit on how much time they spend.
In fact, Do Not Disturb was championed by Tristan Harris, leader of the Time Well Spent movement who today launched the Center For Humane Technology that will fund anti-tech addiction research, education and lobbying.
Having auditioned both of its new models over the past month, I would say that Focal's aspirations are amply justified, and your money would be well spent with either of its new pairs of headphones.
While its foldable and nostalgic design certainly makes the Razr stand out, it's unclear how well-spent that $1,500 will feel once the novelty of snapping your phone shut to end a call wears off.
But if he really does want to make the time we spend on Facebook count as "time well spent," I suspect Facebook will have to change much more radically than it is now letting on.
The Biden supporters in the room are probably now questioning whether their money was well-spent and if they should just back Bloomberg, said the attendee, who noted that supporting Bloomberg wouldn't cost them anything.
" The Facebook co-founder said in January that the company made changes to that "reduced time spent on Facebook by an estimated 50 million hours every day to make sure people's time is well spent.
When Marco writes something, Marco Arment, he's moving the organization, and so I think the move is to do more of the time well spent stuff because that stuff internally gets people talking and can reprioritize.
It took me three months to decide that I'm a 3B curl type with high-porosity strands (time I wish I could get back) and another three months to master a silk press (time well spent).
Alternatively, I'm left to wonder whether there was some kind of underlying spiritual coda being delivered when CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about wanting Facebook to encourage "meaningful social interactions" and lead to more 'time well spent'.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A $6003 million high-tech retractable roof for the Arthur Ashe Stadium court looked like money well spent as play went ahead as scheduled on Thursday, despite steady rain at the U.S. Open.
And then, in late 2017, he has the awkward experience of learning that Mark Zuckerberg has professed his allegiance to his signature idea in a quarterly earnings call and even used the phrase time well spent.
"Let's just say that [tbh] seems like a gateway to Instagram that detours you from Snap, and for $100 million, once it's blown out in the Facebook ecosystem, it seems like money well spent," Cramer said.
Meanwhile, of the $2100 billion invested by Washington in the auto sector, all but about $9 billion was returned to taxpayers — money well spent to save a cornerstone industry and perhaps more than a million jobs.
"If the money is spent on furthering the work of the people on that airplane it would be money well spent," said Justin Green, a New York-based attorney representing several of the Ethiopia crash victims.
Friends and families generally don't charge for their services, but he said his typical fee of $600 — steeper than the $214 the Wedding Report tallied as the average officiant expenditure in 2017 — is money well spent.
If a Spotify-Ringer deal happens, it would signal that Spotify thinks the podcast deals it did last year were money well spent and that podcasting will be an important part of the music company's future.
He and a growing number of artistic leaders in Australia have come to believe that government funding for all the performing arts is simply not enough, nor is it as well spent as it could be.
Some of you like to rush, which is just fine, but if I find myself looking up entries for the column and getting happily absorbed, I consider those extra minutes solving to be time well spent.
Today, its latest "time well spent"-associated feature is arriving: "Memories," a section where you can fondly look back on all the personal sharing and connections Facebook has enabled, and celebrate those moments with family and friends.
As the homeless population explodes and pricey projects are voted into existence, some Seattle residents are questioning if the tens of millions of dollars the city has poured into boosting its progressive credentials is money well spent.
Mashable reached out to Google, Facebook, Apple, and Instagram, and asked whether and what research these companies conducted or consulted that showed that Time Well Spent features, including activity dashboards, would actually reduce time spent on smartphones.
She said we had created the ultimate democracy, where anything said by anyone could be heard by everyone, but she worried about whether it provoked partisanship or tolerance, whether it was time wasted or time well spent.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, a prominent right-wing Conservative lawmaker, delivered to May's office on Friday a petition by readers of the Daily Express newspaper complaining that the aid budget was not well spent and should be cut.
Several people praised the Time Well Spent movement spearheaded by Tristan Harris, a former Google design ethicist and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, as a kind of pro-friction cohort within the tech industry.
But that request will likely be dead on arrival in Congress, largely thanks to two senior Republicans who've become champions of health research, persuading their fiscal conservative colleagues that money for the NIH is money well spent.
Therefore the money you shell out for a ticket to Fifty Shades Darker will be well-spent, so long as you have the luck to sit in a theater with moviegoers as jovial and alert as we did.
And even Facebook, which like Google has been at the center of the debate over time well spent, acknowledged in a blog post last year that in some cases using Facebook could be bad for your mental health.
Tristan Harris: Former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris is the founder of Time Well Spent, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reforming how Silicon Valley designs its products to help our apps and hardware better align with human values.
A firm which retains a graphic designer on contract knows whether or not it likes the resulting logo, but cannot easily say which of the sketches that went into it was time well spent (nor does it care).
But as social networking services are increasingly criticized for being too addictive — and many are now building tools to limit their usage to "time well spent" — how does social media affect young users' self-esteem and mental health?
It is the appetizer before the museum itself is finished, to show donors that their money has been well spent despite the delays that have pushed M+'s estimated opening (the most recent being 2017) to late 2019.
Now, sources close to the MC tell us Kodak has to watch what he spends these days -- money's a little harder to come by when you're in prison -- but we're told KB feels this is money well spent.
On a recent episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, Tristan Harris, founder of Time Well Spent, talked about the ways that tech is designed to manipulate users and hold their attention for as long as possible.
This is kind of the art of the deal stuff that he did, but since when can&apost we demand that our billions of dollars are well spent and reciprocated at least in total by the other members nations?
And even now that the iPhone 8 Plus' starting price has dropped to $700, unless you desperately need a phone with a 2x telephoto zoom, the extra $2750 required to move up to an XR seems money well spent.
Using "Netflix and chill" as code for anything other than watching Netflix and being lazy makes life very difficult for those of us whose idea of a night well spent involves burning through three episodes of Making a Murderer.
In fact, the opposite of "not being a media business" is now occurring: Facebook is directly paying news publishers to create video, even as it claims its focus is on you and your "time well spent" on its site.
Until bags are lifted onto autonomous trolleys and loaded into planes by robots (now there's $50 million well-spent!), RFID won't help with the fact that some of these bags will be forgotten, stolen, and driven over by jets.
Instagram is a place where the rich should excel, because it's built to in their language; no matter your tax bracket, Instagram is a place to document a life well-led, which translates in 2018 to money well spent.
The goal of Time Well Spent is to reverse what it calls "the digital attention crisis" — the brilliant minds at Google, Apple, Facebook, and elsewhere who "hijack our minds" through ever-more sophisticated manipulation techniques delivered through our smartphones.
And if the simplified actions and relationships weren't designed with a users' particular values in mind, then using the software can make living by their values more difficult, which leaves them feeling like their time was not well spent.
Google also introduced its own set of "digital well-being" controls and tools for Android, and even Facebook and Instagram have rewritten parts their software and algorithms with a focus on new metrics like "time well spent," for example.
"I have no idea what Fusion or Steele were paid but if even a shred of that dossier ends up helping Mueller, it will prove money well spent," Fallon said in a string of late night tweets on Tuesday.
The social network wants to reduce what Mr. Zuckerberg called "passive content" — videos and articles that ask little more of the viewer than to sit back and watch or read — so that users' time on the site was well spent.
It's Apple's attempt at countering the increasing concern over the fact that we all may be spending too much time on our phones, part of the "time well spent" movement that's been sweeping the tech world in the past few months.
All respondents have kids who play or have played "competitive youth sports" on highly competitive or elite club teams run by a nonschool organization, and most said they felt the investment in their kids was time and money well spent.
Everyone knows the best way to deal with an annoying neighbor is to simply out annoy them, and as long as their front lawn isn't covered in old cars perched atop cinderblocks, this pink eyesore will be $350 well spent.
Like this year's trend to make our time using phones "well spent," phone makers will continually be pressed to address this problem, be it with extended battery life or ways of stay connected even once most of our phone stops functioning.
Here are four ways to make the most out of your tax refund and shore up your financial health: If student loans are your highest-interest debt, a windfall of cash would be well spent on paying down your balance.
Eleven of 16 major donors contacted by Reuters questioned whether it was money well spent, especially given how the one-time frontrunner has stumbled badly in the polls and is now facing questions about whether he should withdraw from the race.
A year ago Facebook trumpeted how it launched a Time Well Spent dashboard in its app and Instagram for showing how long per day you use the apps with an option to set a reminder to stop after enough minutes.
Facebook said that it worked very closely with researchers to learn how social media can improve wellbeing, but has yet to cite, nor did it conduct, specific research showing that time well spent features have a proven ability to impact behavior.
Given the right prop, however, the mandatory mug shot can go from being a piece of evidence that exists only to prove to your parents that their money was well-spent to something that showcases at least a drop of personality.
His positional awareness and explosive pace gives Spurs a real threat from the left wing, and the decision to spend around 22 million pounds ($30.78 million) to sign him from Bayer Leverkusen in 2015 looks like money incredibly well spent.
"The time Steve Jobs was putting things off and noodling on possibilities was time well spent in letting more divergent ideas come to the table, as opposed to diving right in with the most conventional, the most obvious, the most familiar."
The company's line is that dating will help fulfil its new mission of encouraging 'time well spent' — by helping people forge more meaningful (new) relationships thanks to the power of its network (and the data it sucks out of it).
It is not reasonable or acceptable to expect people with Medicare to continue to pay for increasingly expensive prescription drugs without any consideration of whether their money is being well spent, which is why the proposed model should go forward.
Center for Humane Technology, a nonprofit which advocates for "time well spent" with tech devices, said: Common Sense Media, a nonprofit focused on media for families and children, called California a pioneer in both tech revolution and now consumer privacy safeguards.
The round follows a $1.1 billion round led last year by SoftBank's Vision Fund, which Roivant now says was closed at a post-money valuation of $20143 million, though it didn't necessarily look like money well spent at the time.
They need to secure funding and political support from governments across the world, just as companies use it to seek customers, or politicians' voters; positive media coverage can help to communicate to donors how their dollars are being well spent.
The social network wants to reduce what Mr. Zuckerberg called "passive content" — videos and articles that ask little more of the viewer than to sit back and watch or read — so that users' time on the site was well spent.
That is particularly true for universities like Edinboro, which have thrived on their ability to convince white, working-class families that their limited resources were well spent sending their teenagers to be shaped into the next generation of great thinkers.
Its Time Well Spent dashboard that counts your minutes on Facebook should also say how many notifications you get of each type, how many you actually open, and let you disable the most common but useless ones right from there.
Nunes had to recuse himself from this investigation after his unmasking charade, but the rest of the committee's time would be well spent trying to salvage a credible investigation, particularly as we are nine months away from the 2018 midterms.
Tristan Harris, a former product manager at Google and founder of the nonprofit "Time Well Spent" spoke with this publication's editor in chief about how Apple, Google, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram—you know, everyone—design products to steal our time and attention.
Early dissent started within tech's inner circles — like former Google ethicist Tristan Harris, who coined the idea of "Time Well Spent" — and spread to tech employees who spent their days building apps and their off-time raising their children not to use them.
In this case, make sure that your time is well-spent and, if you sense you're running out of time, close whatever content gaps you have (cinch them right up!) and just make sure you have decent transitions from one thought to another.
Google didn't get into a lot about Android Pie features on the Pixel, but in a "time well spent" manner, there is a new mode that allows you to place the phone front side down on a surface to automatically silence notifications.
It will be millions of dollars well-spent: the house features beautiful mid-century modern wood columns and wall-length windows, which let in tons of sunlight to reflect off the all-white walls, along with sweeping views of Los Angeles down below.
Digital Detox: Big Tech's Phony Crisis of Conscience Grafton Tanner has a critique of the Time Well Spent movement from the left: In a time when free-market capitalism is the only game in town, massively centralized tech companies have virtually unfettered reign.
Instagram CEO confirms upcoming "time spent" Usage Insights "It's really important for people who use Instagram and Facebook that the time they spend with us is time well spent," Ameet Ranadive, Instagram's Product Director of Well-Being, told reporters on a conference call.
The summer travel season has passed, but holiday trips will be here before you know it, and we just can't let this nightmare happen to you: Here's how to prep your phone so your next cross-country jaunt is time well-spent.
The world feels anxious and divided, and Facebook has a lot of work to do — whether it's protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent.
But the company's stock is trading around 4.8 percent below its Wednesday close because of three sentences from Zuckerberg in Facebook's earnings release: Already last quarter, we made changes to show fewer viral videos to make sure people's time is well spent.
Google and Apple have now both built in screen time monitoring and control tools into their mobile operating systems, and even dopamine drug dealers like Facebook, Instagram and YouTube have begun to add screen time reminders and other "time well spent" features.
I think it's interesting that in the last year or so, Mark Zuckerberg has started to talk thoughtfully about using this phrase "time well spent," which came from Tristan Harris, the design ethicist who is trying to help the companies do this better.
This isn't the only approach available to Time Well Spent for companies like Facebook: it was published on a day when Facebook's own announcement on the matter was that it would allow users to watch videos at the same time, and comment together.
But according to so-called whistleblowers such as Tristan Harris, a computer scientist who founded the Time Well Spent movement, and Adam Alter, author of Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked, we humans are totally overpowered.
The world feels anxious and divided, and Facebook has a lot of work to do -- whether it's protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent.
"The Way Home in the Night" is a small story set in the shadowy, philosophical time before sleep — the end of the day when we consider what we achieved, if the hours were well spent, what on earth we're all doing here.
Continuing our focus for 2018 to make sure the time we all spend on Facebook is time well spent... Last week I... Immediately afterward, the New York Times' stock spiked, ending the day up nearly 9 percent, according to data from FactSet.
"The world feels anxious and divided, and Facebook has a lot of work to do—whether it's protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation-states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent," Zuckerberg declared.
All of which is money well spent—especially when you consider the many write-ups just like this that mention those flattering facts (We can do meta, too, Skittles.) "This definitely was a bad idea," Hall and the company belted out in the closing number.
The company declined to say how much the project had cost, but for Jas Scott de Martinville, head of confectionery research and development and the product technology center in the northern English city of York, where the chocolate was developed, it was money well spent.
So much so that each year, when the cold weather months come to a close, the duds you bought from H&M way back in September are still on-trend, making you feel like each dollar you dropped on clothes was a dollar well spent.
"The world feels anxious and divided, and Facebook has a lot of work to do — whether it's protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent," Zuckerberg wrote.
This new value equation has created a more relevant time-based metric for Facebook, with Zuckerberg reporting in Facebook's 2017 Q3 earnings call that "time spent is not a goal by itself here; what we really want to go for is time well spent".
"It is essential for these next week's and months for Afghanistan to show how that money is well spent and how the purpose of Afghanistan and the unity is going to earn the support and respect of the rest of the world," he said.
We think this will be a huge help for our mission to promote Being Well — uh, I mean Time Well Spent because our expert machine learning algorithms will be nudging you to talk to people you should really be talking to TC: Like my therapist?
The company declined to say how much the project had cost, but for Jas Scott de Martinville, head of confectionery research and development and the product technology centre in the northern English city of York, where the chocolate was developed, it was money well spent.
" (Subscription) N.Y. Times "State of the Art" columnist Farhood Manjoo: If Mark Zuckergerg "really does want to make the time we spend on Facebook count as 'time well spent,' I suspect Facebook will have to change much more radically than it is now letting on.
It's a matter of ensuring that taxpayer dollars are well-spent by eliminating waste and duplication, focusing resources on the countries that are the most important and the programs that have the best track records, learning lessons from rigorous evaluation and aligning goals with resources.
Critics argued that the money wasn't well spent — much of it went to expensive contractors — and the politicians who were supposed to champion the effort either moved on to bigger roles (Mayor-turned-Senator Cory Booker) or got sidetracked by scandals (Governor Chris Christie).
"The world feels anxious and divided," Mr. Zuckerberg wrote, "and Facebook has a lot of work to do — whether it's protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent."
Travel Tips Having two or three weeks off for your next vacation is undoubtedly a luxury, but, depending on how you plan, the trip could be time well spent or wasted, according to Sam McClure, the owner of Small World Travel in Austin, Tex.
"The world feels anxious and divided, and Facebook has a lot of work to do–whether it's protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent," he wrote.
Now, on the brink of a re-election campaign, he can make a case that the emphasis was smart — the city's existing legal services program has reduced evictions by 24 percent over two years — and that the increased financing will be money well spent.
"I'll take his framework and explain why things like health security and continued foreign aid, even in that narrow framework, where you give no credit for saving lives in Africa, kind of pure humanitarian things, even without that, this is money well spent," he said.
Tonight, for instance, you could make Florence Fabricant's ace recipe for chicken cutlets with mushroom dressing, then settle in to watch Colin Quinn's "The New York Story" on Netflix, an hour well spent if you want to understand the city and its peculiar charms.
The recommendations of "nutritious" apps, as Google refers to them in an announcement, comes at a time when major tech companies are paying increased attention to the time spent on devices, and a growing concern among consumers – parents and otherwise – that it's not time well spent.
In digital technology, we have insiders including ex-Googlers Tristan Harris and James Williams and early Facebook investor Roger McNamee, among others, leading the Time Well Spent movement, which promises to deter companies from developing and selling technologies that harm us by invading privacy, among other problems.
ViaGen's testimonial section illustrates that, no matter the cost, its customers believe it's money well spent—dozens of former clients there have drafted sonnets in tribute of the preserved genomes of their dead pets and the hopes for the possible clones they may one day produce.
The science is still out Rachel Becker surveys the research coming out of the Time Well Spent movement and finds that it's all a muddle: The actual research hasn't come to one neat conclusion, and that may be because the field has relied on self-reports.
But it is definitely cool to see an all-in-one solution that more or less functions as a competent modern smartphone, and I think there are people with lifestyles more extreme than my own that would consider the Doogee S80 to be $379.99 well spent.
Facebook and Instagram add dashboards to help you manage your time on social apps I wrote about Facebook and Instagram's new Time Well Spent-inspired usage dashboards, which also let you set in-app reminders to stop idly thumbing through your feed after an interval you specify.
Encouraging Time Well Spent – In a massive overhaul to News Feed's algorithm, Facebook will now show more content people actively discuss through comments and shares such as posts from friends, and show less content people passively consume including publicly shared publisher content, news links, and videos.
The minister had previously told a domestic newspaper he was in favor of resuming construction of the Angra 3 nuclear plant, which has been halted since 2015, and that the estimated 15 billion reais ($13 billion) cost of completing the project would be money well spent.
Mr. LaLima, whose family came from Sicily as well, spent a week at Madonia and decided to take over day-to-day operations, allowing Peter to return to public service, working as Mayor Bloomberg's chief of staff and then as chief operating officer of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Online measurement company SimilarWeb has found that time spent with some of the most popular social media apps, like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, has declined in the wake of "time well spent" efforts — though the decline could instead reflect the waning relevance of those social media behemoths.
It was a 144-page presentation titled "Call to Minimize Distraction and Respect Users' Attention," and earned Harris the role of "design ethicist" — a job created specifically for him, and which he held until 2016, when he left to start a nonprofit called Time Well Spent.
"The batting average for getting a death sentence for prosecutors is remarkably low, suggesting that much of the dollars are not well spent, from that perspective," said James Acker, a professor of criminal justice at the State University of New York at Albany and a death-penalty expert.
In other words, if donors step up now and provide the needed funding, the United Nations and its partners will be able swiftly to scale up delivery of aid to those most in need and closely monitor the deliveries so that donors know their funds are well spent.
Mr. Johnson has appeared interested in trying to move the mayor on the issue, but on Thursday, he drew closer to Mr. de Blasio and said that he would not support more money for the M.T.A. without guarantees from the authority that the money would be well spent.
It's not an entirely automated process (you'll still have to listen to the pitch and give the burner credit card details to a caller over the phone, after all), but maybe that's time well spent if you know you could get a check at the end of the process.
"The world feels anxious and divided, and Facebook has a lot of work to do — whether it's protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent," Zuckerberg writes in a Facebook post.
"The world feels anxious and divided, and Facebook has a lot of work to do -- whether it's protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post.
Founded in July 2018 by Cristina Vila, after she experienced the SaaS management nightmare first-hand while working at London fintech Dopay, Cledara has developed software to let companies track and manage their SaaS usage and spending, including analytics to help understand if it is money well-spent.
"The world feels anxious and divided, and Facebook has a lot of work to do — whether it's protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday.
For 2018, the billionaire promised to do his job:The world feels anxious and divided, and Facebook has a lot of work to do — whether it's protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent.
Just this year, Facebook has chosen to optimize for on a new metric called "Time Well Spent," while Apple and Google have introduced new digital health tools like "Screen Time" and "Digital Wellbeing," designed to let users quantify and then set limits on the time they spend on their phones.
Last January, I wrote that "time well spent" was shaping up to be tech's next big debate — and six months later, it was effectively over, as Apple, Google, and Facebook had all added features designed to help users measure their time using those companies' products and to manage their usage.
Economically a "no-brainer" While $15 billion is a significant price for the "hurricane wall," a look at the numbers shows it is likely money well spent (and after all, "the other wall" President Trump wants to build in Texas is likely to cost between $873 billion and $21 billion).
In true Chip-and-Joanna fashion, themes of family, food and fun will extend throughout the publication, with regular stories like "Reflections from Jo," a column of her latest musings; "Generational Wisdom," which pairs two generations' thoughts on one topic; and "Time Well Spent," a roundup of Joanna's current favorite things.
"The world feels anxious and divided, and Facebook has a lot of work to do — whether it's protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent," he said in a Facebook post last week.
"Before he co-opted it for his own gains, 'Made in the U.S.A.' was about celebrating craft and investing in quality, lasting garments, while also helping to revitalize a dying industry," said Brad Bennett, who writes the men's wear blog Well Spent, which focuses largely on premium American-made brands.
While impeachment might excite the partisan bases on both sides of the aisle, to the vast middle that isn't paying attention to the latest revelations that are dripping forth on the front pages of The New York Times, this is time not well spent making the case for their reelections.
My hope is that this update about trusted news and last week's update about meaningful interactions will help make time on Facebook time well spent: where we're strengthening our relationships, engaging in active conversations rather than passive consumption, and, when we read news, making sure it's from high quality and trusted sources.
"Facebook's continued loss of younger adult users, along with its focus on downranking clickbait posts and videos in favor of those that create 'time well spent,' resulted in less daily time spent on the platform in 2018 than we had previously expected," eMarketer principal analyst Debra Aho Williamson said in a press release.
None is more invested than the United States, which supplies more than a quarter of the United Nations peacekeeping budget, an expenditure that Washington, perennial congressional grumbling notwithstanding, has generally considered well spent: It allows the United States to outsource many overseas military missions it would otherwise feel pressure to undertake itself.
And I would love if we could just kinda reverse that and say, hey, much like there's been a change around "time well spent" where technology was distracting us a lot, probably just making our lives worse, now all the operating systems are building in systems to help ... what's the guy's name?
I so don't care I so don't care Notifications In The "Time Well Spent" Feature – Facebook tells you how many minutes you spent on it each day over the past week and on average, but my total time on Facebook matters less to me than how often it interrupts my life with push notifications.
" In January 2018, in response to mounting criticism that technology platforms do more harm than good, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company would start focusing on "time well spent," a phrase Zuckerberg defined as "a responsibility to make sure our services aren't just fun to use, but also good for people's well-being.
She's the head of policy at the nonprofit Data for Democracy, the director of research at the startup New Knowledge, and also was a founding adviser at the Center for Humane Technology, which is the group behind the Time Well Spent movement, and also one of the most ironic names for something, Humane Technology.
Along the lines of the "time well spent" movement: Do Not Disturb has some new features to reduce notifications when you don't want them, Apple is making the process of receiving and dealing with Notifications less noisy, and a new feature called Screen Time helps you understand, control and limit how much time you spend on your device.
And as Facebook moves away from emphasizing News Feed in favor of Groups and Pages anyway, adding another high-quality content space on the platform could help it better align with its "time well spent" mission, as it could help free up News Feed to serve as a space for "meaningful interactions" among family and friends.
I have no idea what Fusion or Steele were paid but if even a shred of that dossier ends up helping Mueller, it will prove money well spent   A lawyer representing both the DNC and Clinton campaign sought help from the opposition research group Fusion GPS to gather information on Trump, according to a Washington Post report.
There have been a lot of former technologists coming out and being like, oh, actually a lot of these things we've made are bad, red bubbles are bad, all these things were designed in a really addictive and seductive way and we should undo it, but all their solutions are like, just delete Facebook, or just use a time-well-spent app.
Comcast wants you to use your phone less, then switch to its network Part of me feels like I should have been prepared for the Comcast corporation (disclosure: an investor in Vox Media) to see the Time Well Spent movement as a content marketing opportunity, and create a web page promoting a "phone cleanse" that also serves as an advertisement for buying additional Comcast services.
Odell's proposed course of action doesn't have much use for the now-trendy "Time Well Spent" movement (which relies on more tech to solve the problem of too much tech) or apps that inform you when you've wasted too much of your day on social media, or any solution proposed by the same Silicon Valley wunderkinds who profited from getting us into this mess.
MORE STORIES FROM THE HILL: Trump must create jobs, not just keep them in America Blockchain tech is our financial future — America can get ahead of it This election stirred age-old animosities Democrats should have just as much interest as Republicans in rolling back counterproductive regulations and cutting unnecessary government programs, so that they can show that government can work and that people's tax dollars are well spent.
But I do believe that through seeing what's happened with Time Well Spent, with the race to hijack our minds, with the power of shared understanding, if people can see these the same way, if they can see the problem the same way, that the race to capture attention combines addiction, teen isolation, mental health, polarization, outreach education, the vanity-ification of our culture, that these are connected issues and we call that human downgrading.
Former Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE press secretary Brian Fallon said Tuesday that funding for a dossier of damaging information on President Trump's campaign was "money well spent" after reports surfaced that the dossier was paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Fulton Sheen (especially with Easter coming up and most churches closed to Mass right now)  Studies:  > CFA Level I -- a good primer in markets and macro  > The CFP courses -- I only made it through three or four, but it was money well spent, and is the best overall real guide to "personal finance" you could find  I'm not sure how each of these study providers is affected by coronavirus but if the online courses are still available, I think they're worth taking even if you can't or don't take the exams or get the credentials in the end.

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