Time & Money Tara McMullin

"Money is a shared delusion." So says Finance for the People author Paco de Leon. Thinking critically about money & our relationship to it helps us make better financial decisions.

Digital tools & productivity hacks abound. They claim to help us save time so we can play more. But they end up just raising our expectations for our work output—which only adds to our stress instead of easing it.

There’s more than one way to measure success—and there’s more than one way to measure time. How do you account for the time you spend working? And is it really the most effective—for you—to spend it?

Is this really a new economy? Or have we entered an economic no man's land fueled by new forms of speculation, financialization, and creative liquidation?

Our perceptions of what our time is worth can vary wildly. But maybe trying to put a price tag on time isn't a helpful thing to do in the first place.

The systems we operate in all have different incentive systems: our business models, the social media platforms, our economy, the culture at large… And many of these incentive systems have become simplified and gamified—changing the way we view the results of our work and the goals that we hold.