Time confetti sounds fun, like the sort of thing we should want more of. But the time-use research term, coined by the author Brigid Schulte, refers to our collective tendency to “shred” time into pieces. Give us an hour, and we’ll put it through the Fargo wood chipper — two minutes to answer this email, three to scroll through this X spat, five to finish reading this article, etc. That’s 17% of an hour up in smoke, and it’s rare that those mini-blocks play out sequentially.