**Per capita ROI is better than large gross totals.**
Total dollars matters much less than dollars per hour. Maximizing value per time is _the_ stated goal. Settling for a schedule completely full of 60% good work means you'll be constantly busy, and making 40% less than you could be making elsewhere — or that you're using 40% more of your life than you'd need to accomplish the same results elsewhere.
> [!NOTE] Value In ➡️ Value Out
If you're making a salary of $100k a year, but you're working 70 hours a week, you're making less than someone who works 40 hours a week for $70k. Value your time & energy. They are you. Value yourself. It's your [[Life Energy]]. [[You Are Time]].
Other applications:
- Modeling the heck out of an [[Enterprise Architecture]] may yield and incredibly robust multidimensional network of interlinking views... but may take 100s to 1000s of person-hours, whereas simple [[Core EA Diagrams]] may yield 80% of the effective value using way less than 20% of the work.
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# More
## Source
- [[The 4-Hour Work Week]]
- [[The Happiness Equation]]
## Related
- [[Trading Life, Not Money]]
- [[Pareto Principle]]
- [[Real Hourly Wage]]
- [[Find the Value of Your Time]]
- [[Obsess Over Quality]]