Buying Time

Buying Time

"When you get the money, the only thing you want to buy is time." – mike

How we spend time is how we earn time.

That statement seems counterintuitive on the surface, but let me explain:

If time is the only thing we have for sale, we are always in debt.

The only way to escape this paradigm is to make something that keeps working after we stop working:

Music, art, software, devices, services, books, movies, products — the list is quite literally endless. 

Build once, sell twice.

The extent to which anything keeps working after you stop working determines how much time you earn from making it.

Buying Time by Visualize Value

Art history has witnessed a series of exponential leaps, not just in the production of art but, more significantly, in the reach that each new medium or technological innovation has enabled.
Leverage is as much about where you are standing as how much force you are applying.

If you are building something, it is far more useful to focus on the work you are doing to produce the result than the result itself.