A unit of time large enough to hold a civilization's worth of effort, and small enough that a handful of people, together, could actually fill it.

One million
hours.

That's 114 years of continuous time, longer than any one life. But spread across enough hands, it's just a few good years of shared work. This page is about both ends of that scale.

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The hours we're building right now

Log the hours you spend making something.

Not busywork: the hours that went into building, practicing, fixing, or finishing something you care about. Every visitor here is adding to the same running total, toward the same million.

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What a million hours has bought before

Some things took far less. Some took far more.

These are rough, widely cited estimates, not audited totals: treat them as orders of magnitude, not receipts. Bars for anything under a million hours are shown against a full million-hour scale. Bars for anything over a million show their own full total, with a line marking where a million sits inside it.

on the longer bars, the line marks where 1,000,000 hours falls within the total