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You save money to secure future wealth. More importantly, you should make time to be future relevant

Being Human for a Better Tomorrow in the Age of AI

  • June 28, 2024
  • 4th Edition
You save money to secure future wealth

The first part, saving money to secure future wealth, is ingrained and done by everyone. However, very few people do the second part, which is to make time to learn and grow to be future relevant. This is counterintuitive, as stagnation and obsolescence from lack of skills and know-how at work is far more likely than running out of money.

Why is this so? The challenge for most is not the intent but finding ways to make time to think, learn, and grow, especially when every weekday is exhausting and weekends are barely enough for recovery.

Here are some suggestions to make the way:

Just like you save a percentage for investment, clearly set a goal to dedicate a percentage of your time as quiet time to think about work. Here are some ways to free up time :

  1. Create and following a daily routine that accounts for all available hours as you determine.

  2. Be open to expanding marginal hours – for example, Saturday mornings or Sunday evenings for quiet time. Commit as if you were taking a part-time course.

  3. Increase asynchronous working that demands less of others and, in turn, demands less of your time. Say no to actions where you have nothing to contribute or gain.

Use a modified concurrent two SWOT analyses, one for work and one for skills, to identify focus areas and build an action plan as below:

Work SWOT

Strengths (Today)Weaknesses (Today)
OpportunitiesThreats
(Tomorrow)(Tomorrow)

Skill SWOT

Strengths (Today)Weaknesses (Today)
OpportunitiesThreats
(Tomorrow)(Tomorrow)

Engage with knowledgeable, well-meaning friends, peers, leaders, or mentors to sound out, critique, and develop your worldview of work and plan to get there.

Publicly commit to the action plan to help ensure you execute it.

You are an appreciating asset. Do make time to learn and grow. No one else will do it for you.

From Naval Ravikant

  • "Value your time at an hourly rate and ruthlessly spend to save time at that rate. "
  • "Forty hour weeks are a relic of industrial age.Knowledge workers are like athletes train and sprint and then rest and reassess."
  • "What you want in life is to be in control of your time."
  • "A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great."
  • "99% of efforts are wasted. Impatience with actions, patience with results."

You are the asset, and learning is the investment you make to remain relevant and valuable. Living, learning, and growing is a great engine for life. Add good learning every day.

I hope these insights help.
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Best wishes

Select Quotes

"Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else."
― Peter Drucker
"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
― Stephen Covey
“You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”
― John C. Maxwell
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
― Benjamin Franklin
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
― Alvin Toeffler

II. Questioning / Asking

Good conversations flow from well‑sequenced questions—topical, simple, coherent, cohesive.
LLM Conversation Example 1
Q: What are empirical judgments?

A: Empirical judgments are based on observation, experience, or experimentation.
Q: What are moral judgments?

A: Moral judgments are based on ethical principles and values.
“AI is a language. Treat it like one: practice, iterate, and mind your grammar prompts, assumptions, and verification.”
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