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đŸ•°ïž Time arbitrage + TME alchemy

short read to capture back 312-520 hours / year

Time GOAT

“When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it’s only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.”

AI Einstein

Take 10s to ingest this beaut I just prompted. A similar painting print by a local Florida artist hangs on my wall on the Space Coast.

Time arbitrage!

Time arbitrage is a beautiful dance between three core metrics in life mgmt: TME (Time Money Energy).

Think about any skill, knowledge, cert or degree you are considering or you know will elevate your work or lifestyle. If you are not time wealthy, think about experiences and memories left on the table, passion that’s been neglected, friends/family that you don’t see enough.

Let’s define time, money and energy better. You’ll see some example calcs below to quantify this. You need to define a monthly monetary value (in your country’s currency such as the declining USD), and consider it house money. You are now free rolling; toast the bread. Life on Earth is more enjoyable, and over the weeks/months you WILL have elevated that new skill, project, relationship (etc.) from the time carved out from simple TME alchemy :)

Money is a form of life energy. Currency, by its very name, implies flow—like a current. When you stop the flow, you disrupt the natural rhythm of abundance.

Deepak Chopra

“Currency” is rooted in current —> it’s meant to flow! Pump that bread into lovely hours spent on Planet Earth 🌎 eradicate mundanity and bot shit. You are too damn special. We live in a golden era of abundance and opportunity in human history.

Time FLIES
try and catch it.

Mac Miller

There is also metaphysical aspect of this: more momentum in work, less attention residue, minimizing decision fatigue, and minimizing the neural energy+focus of “I have to cook and clean” or “what am i eating tomorrow”

So if you are not as time wealthy as you are financially wealthy, these are no-brainers most of the week to eradicate the time sinks. This isn’t just about cooking; these are also little to no clean up!

*This isn’t taking into account enjoyable cooking seshes especially with a partner and light music <3 some activities are precious and cannot be replaced.

  • air fryer king/\queen: fish, frozen veggies, pre-cooked meats with fire oils sauces spices (or be a microwave savage). Still healthy (which buys you back medical bills in your 50s-60s+)

  • hard boiled eggs! (with hummus + black lava salt or your favorite spices and salts)

  • jerky (no sugar = sin azĂșcar), avocados (one of the best produce to buy non-organic) (my daily snack is chilled avocado (aguacate) with organic unsweetened cacao, olive oil, lava salt, hemp hearts/crushed walnuts), nuts (watch out for bad oils in these get the raw stuff)

  • healthy fast casual or pickup! These usually beat out these new local meal prep companies popping up. Sometimes you can find someone off Facebook Marketplace who has decent meal prep deals and they even deliver.

  • raw fermented foods + pre-cooked lentils/beans

  • rotisserie chickens (bawk bawk bacak) are ultra delicioso (splendissimo with mojo) and are priced very fairly. Insane amount of protein and you can eat around the fat so that outrageous calorie count on the package is all cap! we eat wise! The breast portion is straight gains no fat.

  • wise meal preps always help and are (usually) easier on the pockets (via simp calcs) but if you got some bread coming in just toast it recapture that time baby it is our most precious asset :) I want to make a free meal prep + elixir PDF and work in all this TME alchemy —> lmk if you want it!

  • grocery delivery/pick-up is a power move. I personally love grocery shopping so I mix it in because life is too short not to do things you love even if it isn’t a TME alchemy god move. Same with cooking meals with loved ones <3

<3 —> everyone’s TME situation is different and must be designed wisely, so don’t bark at me in the comments you ducking pack a hounds :) 😘

Building our time-arbitrage skills (and iterating for life! life is long if we make it long!) generates this sense of liberty from mundanity, and has ripple effects beyond your current imagination :)

I ran some quick calcs thru GPT 4o for cleaning cooking groceries & threw in 30 minutes a week for decision-making mental effects. A rough ballpark to quantify this, at an arbitrary $40/hour value given to your precious time on Earth (fuck what your job says!!!), leads to $12,500 to $20,800 per year saved with a 312-520 hours per year assumption.

So on the LOW end, if you were to spend an extra $1000 a month or $250 a week on anything to buy back time (especially food in order to not cook+clean), then you would be equating to your value on Earth (run these calcs for yourself with whatever hourly number your time is “worth”!). This is an extremely high number
but even $100 a week carving out more time for YOU goes very far.
This isn’t fugazzi fugozzi wealthy people talk, consider the shift in dollars spent an investment in Self. It doesn’t have to break the monthly personal cash flow, but allocate a defined amount now, call it house money, and raise that amount year after year. You are too damn special. We live in a golden era of abundance and opportunity in human history.

To Scale: Time

I leave you with an outstanding mini-doc visualizing our life on Earth in 2025. I cried towards the end of this exceptional short film. I won’t tell you why (unless you say pretty por favor claro que si)

Ravioli Ravioli! gimme gimme

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