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Yes. My time is highly valuable. As is my ISP pipe and my thought processing. Spam steals that, and you'll find no quarter with most tech folks because this is

by tomrod 5y ago

Yes. My time is highly valuable. As is my ISP pipe and my thought processing. Spam steals that, and you'll find no quarter with most tech folks because this is the societal default.

paulcole 5y ago
- tomrod 5y ago
  Oh my. This is a lovely comment. Let us dissect. > Let’s not confuse being paid a lot of money at work with our time being valuable. Thanks. I haven't. But I'm glad you reminded people that time being valuable is disconnected from hourly rate. Perhaps unintentionally. It wouldn't matter if my job paid minimum wage or I fund my fifth yacht budget from my latest financial trade, my time is valuable. I get one life to enjoy. Others may value their time differently. My time, however, I value highly. > You comment quite a bit on a site that’s the content marketing project of a VC firm after all. I learn quite a bit from the site, as the weekend projects here become the valuable tech five to ten years down the line. ----- Spam emails are an unmitigated moral bad, and a tu quoque in their defense, however misplaced and invective, is ultimately meaningless.
- otterley 5y ago
  > Let’s not confuse being paid a lot of money at work with our time being valuable. On the contrary, that's exactly what "being paid a lot of money at work" implies.
  - noizejoy 5y ago
    “My time being valuable” can legitimately be meant in a fully subjective way. In the sense of: I would like to cram a long list of activities (including thinking about certain things) into my remaining lifetime. If that list is a lot longer than my remaining life allows for, the value of my time is arguably pretty high for me - even if it isn’t for others.
    - otterley 5y ago
      I think both can be true!
      - noizejoy 5y ago
        I just meant they are pretty much independent dimensions, and I interpreted your comment to mean they are highly correlated. Or did I misunderstand what you were trying to say?
        otterley 5y ago
        I think it depends on the frame of reference: one reflects how others value you; the other reflects how you value yourself. (And as most of us know, these are not necessarily correlated...)

by tomrod 5y ago

Yes. My time is highly valuable. As is my ISP pipe and my thought processing. Spam steals that, and you'll find no quarter with most tech folks because this is the societal default.

paulcole 5y ago

tomrod 5y ago
Oh my. This is a lovely comment. Let us dissect. > Let’s not confuse being paid a lot of money at work with our time being valuable. Thanks. I haven't. But I'm glad you reminded people that time being valuable is disconnected from hourly rate. Perhaps unintentionally. It wouldn't matter if my job paid minimum wage or I fund my fifth yacht budget from my latest financial trade, my time is valuable. I get one life to enjoy. Others may value their time differently. My time, however, I value highly. > You comment quite a bit on a site that’s the content marketing project of a VC firm after all. I learn quite a bit from the site, as the weekend projects here become the valuable tech five to ten years down the line. ----- Spam emails are an unmitigated moral bad, and a tu quoque in their defense, however misplaced and invective, is ultimately meaningless.
otterley 5y ago
> Let’s not confuse being paid a lot of money at work with our time being valuable. On the contrary, that's exactly what "being paid a lot of money at work" implies.
- noizejoy 5y ago
  “My time being valuable” can legitimately be meant in a fully subjective way. In the sense of: I would like to cram a long list of activities (including thinking about certain things) into my remaining lifetime. If that list is a lot longer than my remaining life allows for, the value of my time is arguably pretty high for me - even if it isn’t for others.
  - otterley 5y ago
    I think both can be true!
    - noizejoy 5y ago
      I just meant they are pretty much independent dimensions, and I interpreted your comment to mean they are highly correlated. Or did I misunderstand what you were trying to say?
      - otterley 5y ago
        I think it depends on the frame of reference: one reflects how others value you; the other reflects how you value yourself. (And as most of us know, these are not necessarily correlated...)