“You waste years by not being able to waste hours.”
– Amos Tversky
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“With businessmen, time is money; with academics, money is time.”
– Lawrence Rosen, quoted in Journeys of the Mind by Peter Brown
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I don’t want to hustle to become a millionaire.
I’m not prepared to work 80 hour weeks creating my own company.
I don’t measure success by wealth.
That’s just as well. I’d have to judge myself a failure.
For me time spent amongst words is the best time in the world.
Reading. Thinking. Writing.
It is a constant struggle to create time to create.
The time available is not plentiful.
It’s not measured in large slabs of time. More like crumbs, that if attentively gathered, make a whole.
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