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For me personally, if I lose half an hour, I lose as much money as I get for half an hour of work. That's why I love content recommendation systems which actua

For me personally, if I lose half an hour, I lose as much money as I get for half an hour of work. That's why I love content recommendation systems which actually work. Though the downside is, that today's systems (looking at you, Spotify) close you in kind of a bubble. The best I've met was Google play music, the recommendations were great and at the same time you got to know a lot of great content unlike anything you've heard before! I switched, because unfortunately it seemed like nobody was working on it anymore.

chatmasta 8y ago
I don’t buy this “what my time is worth” argument. Can you really say that if you weren’t watching a Netflix show, you would be working for pay? That assumes that (1) your sole leisure activity is Netflix, and (2) you can work 24 hours a day if you want to. It seems dubious at best.
scarface74 8y ago
I keep seeing people equate every hour they spend on X as the same amount of opportunity cost of they were working. Do you measure how much time you sleep, spend with your family, eating etc. in the same way? I work 40-45 hours a week. Even when I am doing contract work, I limit the time I’m working. I don’t equate the 8 hours I spend working out to lost wages either.
- cube2222 8y ago
  Nah, this way I count 1. Wasted hours 2. How much my vacation is actually worth. This seems like it would make you a workaholic / crazy, but in fact at least for me, it makes me value the time more and make a bigger effort to spend it well. It also makes it easy to decide if buying something that's meant to save me time is worth it, cause it's a simple "time saved" vs cost calculation. Time spent sleeping is special, because I know how bad I function and unhappy I am if I sleep too short for an extended period of time and it actually equates to days wasted.
  - scarface74 8y ago
    It’s not that complicated for me. There are certain things I just don’t want to do and gladly pay money to have someone else do the work. I don’t like doing yard work and I will happily pay the going rate for someone else to do it. I don’t like going to the gym or working out outside - By the time it is all said and done, I’ll spend way more than the accumulated hours I’m saving by not driving to and from the local gym.

chatmasta 8y ago

I don’t buy this “what my time is worth” argument. Can you really say that if you weren’t watching a Netflix show, you would be working for pay? That assumes that (1) your sole leisure activity is Netflix, and (2) you can work 24 hours a day if you want to. It seems dubious at best.

scarface74 8y ago

I keep seeing people equate every hour they spend on X as the same amount of opportunity cost of they were working. Do you measure how much time you sleep, spend with your family, eating etc. in the same way? I work 40-45 hours a week. Even when I am doing contract work, I limit the time I’m working. I don’t equate the 8 hours I spend working out to lost wages either.

cube2222 8y ago
Nah, this way I count 1. Wasted hours 2. How much my vacation is actually worth. This seems like it would make you a workaholic / crazy, but in fact at least for me, it makes me value the time more and make a bigger effort to spend it well. It also makes it easy to decide if buying something that's meant to save me time is worth it, cause it's a simple "time saved" vs cost calculation. Time spent sleeping is special, because I know how bad I function and unhappy I am if I sleep too short for an extended period of time and it actually equates to days wasted.
- scarface74 8y ago
  It’s not that complicated for me. There are certain things I just don’t want to do and gladly pay money to have someone else do the work. I don’t like doing yard work and I will happily pay the going rate for someone else to do it. I don’t like going to the gym or working out outside - By the time it is all said and done, I’ll spend way more than the accumulated hours I’m saving by not driving to and from the local gym.