Agree completely. Optimizing for some fictitious hourly rate doesn't sound very meaningful. Personally I try to optimize for "overall lifetime impact". Sometim

Agree completely. Optimizing for some fictitious hourly rate doesn't sound very meaningful. Personally I try to optimize for "overall lifetime impact". Sometimes that means picking up pots from my parent's house. Most often it means going without pots. I guess you can also optimize for "likelihood of success in current venture" or even "present value of future earnings" and get similar results.