For a personal finance "classic" in this vein, I recommend "Your Money or Your Life" by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin: http://www.amazon.com/Your-Money-Life-Tra

For a personal finance "classic" in this vein, I recommend "Your Money or Your Life" by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin: http://www.amazon.com/Your-Money-Life-Transforming-Relationship/dp/0140286780 http://www.amazon.com/Your-Money-Life-Transforming-Relations... The book has some interesting things to say about the value of time and, at the very least, forces you to think about the trade-offs of time, money, work and consumption. There's a particularly sobering exercise in the book that has you consider how many productive, non-sleeping hours you have left in your life which provided me with some new perspective I hadn't considered.