Yeah, I think youâre right that a possible takeaway here is âtry to minimize your leisure time, but leave yourself generous slackâ, and I like the idea of building up a âmotivational runwayâ that you can burn down when you need to push really hard on something.
I just still think that most people (sure, probably not Sam Bankman-Fried) are going to cause themselves needless pain by aiming for minimum leisure/âfun/âetc instead of prioritizing more important uses of a smaller number of impact-oriented hours.
To reverse your financial metaphor, I feel like I see a lot of people doing the equivalent of only buying beans and rice at the grocery store so they can donate more money to their local childrenâs hospital and Iâm like⌠hey, if youâre interested in saving childrenâs lives, you might want to consider buying bednets? Also, have you looked into whether you might be able to increase your earnings, rather than focusing on not spending? I worry that âminimize leisure timeâ, like âminimize grocery billâ, is a goal that feels easy to optimize for while both distracting from more important goals and potentially doing some health damage.
Yeah, I think youâre right that a possible takeaway here is âtry to minimize your leisure time, but leave yourself generous slackâ, and I like the idea of building up a âmotivational runwayâ that you can burn down when you need to push really hard on something.
I just still think that most people (sure, probably not Sam Bankman-Fried) are going to cause themselves needless pain by aiming for minimum leisure/âfun/âetc instead of prioritizing more important uses of a smaller number of impact-oriented hours.
To reverse your financial metaphor, I feel like I see a lot of people doing the equivalent of only buying beans and rice at the grocery store so they can donate more money to their local childrenâs hospital and Iâm like⌠hey, if youâre interested in saving childrenâs lives, you might want to consider buying bednets? Also, have you looked into whether you might be able to increase your earnings, rather than focusing on not spending? I worry that âminimize leisure timeâ, like âminimize grocery billâ, is a goal that feels easy to optimize for while both distracting from more important goals and potentially doing some health damage.
I like that analogy a lot!