Category: Time
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Crazy Diamonds
“Size” only does so much in the world of art. It’s there, for sure! Pink Floyd’s “Shine On You Crazy Diamonds (Pts. 1-5)” is much longer (at over 13 minutes) than Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop” (barely 2 minutes). But no reasonable person with even a slight modicum of musical taste would…
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Bored out of our dollars
Attempts to exempt yourself or your children from boredom are inevitably expensive, both in the sense that the activities you purchase cost money and in the sense that boredom is an important feature of being.
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Time is your ally
In his wonderful primer on Girardian thought, Luke Burgis draws a lovely and useful distinction between “thin” desires–transient and often unhealthfully mimicking–and “thick” desires–those which endure and are ultimately good. There are many ways to go about cultivating thick desires, but it strikes me that time is one of our…
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Time and checks
Part of the journey of generosity is slowly allowing the walls we put up around our most precious resources to be torn down. For some of us, being generous with our time and presence is hardest. For some of us, giving money away in meaningful amounts is hardest. But this…
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The cost of chaos
The cost of chaos is much higher than what shows up in your personal income statement. Put another way, a reduction in income which in turn reduces chaos may be one of the best decisions you ever make. Clearing calendars, eliminating some moving pieces, creating a margin in time you…
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Don’t ever let a clock tell you what you’ve got time for
Time is not money, never was money, and never will be money. But the more hurried we are—the less time we have at the margins—the more likely we are to spend money on things that don’t matter. Because a lack of time means we will feel compelled to outsource as…
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Apples and acorns
I tend to think an orientation around processes is more useful than an orientation around goals, but the processes still need a telos, an end, a desired fruit. Sometimes in financial planning the analogy of growing trees is used: it takes time, it starts from a small seed, it grows…
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All types of better
Sometimes “better” means one thing. Coke is better than Pepsi, etc. But most of the time “better” is not one thing at all. Most of the time “better” could be defined any number of ways. For example: None of those choices need to be mutually exclusive necessarily, but setting them…
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Pick it up and set it down
It is possible to be wise and thoughtful in the ways you approach your finances without letting money be the central animating force of your life. It doesn’t need to be like smart phones are for so many of us, constantly there and somewhat distracting. You can simply pick it…
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Quantum planning
The point of planning is not to tell the future, but to use the future as a reverence point that helps us wake up to the present. Waking up means: self-awareness and other-awareness, doing the next thing and then the next, breathing in the joy of being alive right now,…
Meaningful Returns 