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71: Tradeoffs

Time and Attention

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The Marginal Cost of Working on Something

The marginal cost of working on something is equal to the value of the most valuable thing you could be working on in that moment. Every additional person you follow is going to cost you something in time. And so just thinking about these kinds of minute trade offs is just very helpful, or i find it very helpful to a kind of zoom out and really think more more strategically,. The actual costs of me doing everything i do, or how I spend my time, or how i spend my attention.

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