RSS

Re­source tradeoffs

TagLast edit: May 12, 2022, 8:00 PM by Pablo

Resource tradeoffs are exchanges between resources, such as money, time, and energy.

Most people trade significant amounts of their time for money on a daily basis (e.g., working to earn income), and conversely money can be spent to free one’s time (e.g., paying someone else to spend their time on a task). To make effective time-money tradeoffs, it’s important to be able to estimate the value of a marginal hour of one’s time.

Further reading

Bye, Lynette (2019) How much is your time worth?, LessWrong, September 2.

Cotton-Barratt, Owen (2015) Neutral hours: a tool for valuing time and energy, Global Priorities Project, March.

De­mand­ing­ness and Time/​Money Trade­offs are Orthogonal

CarolineEllisonMay 5, 2022, 7:19 PM
250 points
37 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] What are your favourite ways to buy time?

Will BradshawNov 2, 2021, 10:02 AM
73 points
35 comments1 min readEA link

On miss­ing moods and tradeoffs

LizkaMay 9, 2023, 10:06 AM
50 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Six Take­aways from EA Global and EA Retreats

AkashDec 16, 2021, 9:14 PM
55 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

Solv­ing for the op­ti­mal work-life bal­ance with ge­o­met­ric rationality

Eric NeymanNov 28, 2022, 5:16 PM
18 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

LW4EA: How Much is Your Time Worth?

JeremyApr 19, 2022, 2:03 AM
9 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] How should peo­ple spend money to be more pro­duc­tive?

Ben WilliamsonApr 14, 2022, 1:22 PM
30 points
31 comments1 min readEA link

We are in triage ev­ery sec­ond of ev­ery day

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸Aug 26, 2016, 8:20 PM
218 points
25 comments4 min readEA link

Phil Tram­mell: Philan­thropy timing and the hinge of history

EA GlobalFeb 11, 2020, 9:15 PM
22 points
1 comment13 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Welfare ranges per calorie consumption

Vasco Grilo🔸Jun 24, 2023, 8:47 AM
12 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Ways Fru­gal­ity In­creases Productivity

Ben_West🔸Jun 25, 2019, 9:06 PM
83 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

Time-Time Tradeoffs

AkashApr 1, 2022, 3:29 PM
61 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Map­ping the EA Psy­chol­ogy/​Men­tal Health Space

Mark RootenbergDec 3, 2024, 1:43 PM
46 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Why Altru­ists Can’t Have Nice Things

lincolnqJun 21, 2023, 3:43 AM
182 points
68 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] How Di­verse Are EA’s Re­source Allo­ca­tions and In­ter­ven­tions Across De­mo­graph­ics and Re­gions?

emmannaemekaDec 8, 2024, 6:17 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

A database of effec­tive pro­duc­tivity recommendations

Ben WilliamsonJun 17, 2022, 3:42 PM
104 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

Does most of your im­pact come from what you do soon?

JoshcFeb 21, 2023, 5:12 AM
38 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Re­search vs. non-re­search work to im­prove the world: In defense of more re­search and re­flec­tion [linkpost]

Magnus VindingMay 20, 2022, 4:25 PM
31 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(magnusvinding.com)

Re­source Allo­ca­tion: A Re­search Agenda

arvommNov 14, 2024, 3:34 PM
44 points
7 comments33 min readEA link