After analyzing last yr's finances, my personal burn rate is $7.19 per hour, 24/7/365. A large Starbucks latte costs me 38m of runway
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My latest nice dinner cost 5.5 hours of runway. Oh wait, girlfriend paid
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Health insurance under ACA costs me 43 hours of runway EVERY MONTH. 21.5 days per year
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My car payment costs me 60 hours of runway every month. Monthly transportation budget? 5.8 days
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Rent in downtown Oakland chops off 5.4 days of runway every month
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Working 8 hrs per day, my break even point to cover expenses is $21.57 per hour
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That's interesting math to play with for opportunity cost decisions.
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right? More real than "income opportunity cost," bec it's what I'm actually spending. Not theoretical
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ouch, you make me want to just quit. This is a very stressful mental model.
why? If my goal is to keep playing, not make $X, makes sense to frame decisions in terms of time,not $
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not an intellectual thing... just a sense of everything having a time cost seems like a dystopian legibilization
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