Time into Money

I do a fair bit of recording video whilst using some memory intensive programs on top, which can be a bit of a strain on my work PC, so I asked for some more RAM yesterday and had another 16GB installed today to take it to 32GB - that is nice - can never have too many resources.

right?

If we want to do something, anything at all, it is all about resource acquisition, management and application. If we want to run, we will have to learn to walk, but we will also have to ensure that our muscles are conditioned, they have fuel and we are able to use what we have to pump our legs in a systematic manner - everything takes energy of some kind. And, if you want "the job" done well, you have to make sure that the energy is provided, in whatever form it requires.

To make what you want to happen, what do you need?

Many people want to be rich or healthy, they want to be highly skilled at something or have a relationship they value. Everyone (I don't care what someone says) wants something. And sure, it might be the root of suffering, but unfortunately as humans, we seem destined to suffer - one way or another.

What are we willing to suffer for?

Obviously, what we are willing to suffer for is a personal position, though it can be influenced heavily by our environment. Look at all of the people who suffer in order to have a "Brazilian Butt lift" and we act as though that is normal behavior in this society - because it is. Sure, we might not want to do that ourselves, but take a look at Instagram and the "influencers" on the platform - how many of them are "just like" the normal, average people who consume their content?

We are influenced, we are also influential. We give energy through what we consume and that energy gets used to meet the goals of others - nothing is lost, it is just transferred. The question is, are we making sure that we are getting what we need to accomplish our goals, or are we so focused on consuming, that any energy we do manage to gather, gets moved on before it has had a chance to be used by us, for us.

And, this is not just money on consumables and entertainment, it is also the other forms of energy we have, like our motivation and attention. Use them poorly and we have no opportunity to reach our goals, unless our goal happens to fall into our lap through sheer blind luck - like a winning lottery ticket, handed to us by a stranger.

I waste a lot of my resources or at least, my potential, because there are just so many things that need attention I don't have to give in order to make them work. And, I think this is part of the problem for many people in the world, as our attention is drawn this way and that, driven by FUD and FOMO, the moving gif, the beep from the phone, the clickbait headline and all the other pulls so that, we no longer have the bandwidth to attend to anything else, including meeting the needs of the things that we say we need, or say we love.

I don't have time.

No one does these days.

It seems that no matter if someone is working a 70h week or unemployed, no one has time to spend on working toward what they say they want, to get to where they say they want to be going. And, without time, there is no energy, without energy, all the time in the world is useless.

Unfortunately, unlike a computer, we can't speed ourselves up to have more time and resources with a stick of RAM, we have to actually upgrade the hardware, write new software - change our programming. For some, they see this as meaning to cut out activity to save time, but really, there is no cut, it is just redirection and doing less, doesn't mean the energy isn't used in transfer to someone else.

It is a funny thing though, isn't it? Just imagine that every time you sit down in front of the TV you are not only limiting your own ability to perform, you are transferring some of your resource wealth to other people, you will never see, know or interact with. Every Netflix show makes a Netflix investor, a fraction wealthier. Every Instagram influencer you double tap on, utilizes that metric to extract a fraction more from an advertiser. Every clickbait article link followed,, ensure that the algorithms learn and tomorrow, there will be more of the same.

Everything is designed to extract energy in some way, in some form, whether it be the coins in our pocket or where we focus our eyes. Demand drives Supply.

This is economics.

And as many people like to point out, wealth comes in many forms and all are transferrable, even if they change form in the process, time into money, money into investment, investment into production, production into consumption - time into money again.

I need an upgrade.

Taraz [ Gen1: Hive ]