People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy. – Seneca
Reflection
Most people protect their valuables with 2FA, passkeys, and firewalls.
But when it comes to time, they give it away without hesitation.
You can recover lost money.
But a wasted hour never returns.
Time is your rarest resource. It drains through meetings you don't need, notifications you don't silence, and obligations you never intended to choose.
It's consumed not by what you choose but by what you fail to filter.
When you don't define how to use your time, the world decides for you.
Skip TypeScript annotations, and the system will fill the gap. But it often gets your intent wrong.
Your schedule behaves the same way.
To live deliberately, treat time as your most protected asset.
Not to save time for its own sake but to invest it in what matters.
Today's Insight
If you don't own your time, someone else will.
Your calendar doesn't just reflect your plans.
It reflects your values.
Action Steps
- Audit your time - Review your week. What fueled progress? What pulled you off course? Notice what stole your attention and why.
- Set your focus filter - Name your top priorities. Use them as a decision framework for what you accept and decline.
- Limit new commitments - Say yes only when it aligns with what matters most. Guard your bandwidth like you guard your production environment.
- Protect deep work time - Block hours for focused creation. Defend them like a production environment. No distractions. No exceptions.
Consider This
What if time were your most constrained system resource?
You can't scale it, recover it, or pause it.
How would you design your day to minimize waste and deliver what matters?