[reitzensteinm]

Wait, there's a difference between concentrating on tasks that you reasonably expect to yield $1000 an hour, and spending $1000 here and now to save an hour.

If there were two services, say an email support answering service, one requiring $50 a month and 2 hours of your time, and one requiring $1000 a month and 1 hour of your time, are you really saying you'd choose option #2?

I don't think that's in the spirit of the original blog post. It stipulated the example current, risk free value of time as $150, which is probably more accurate, and that would be the figure you'd use to make decisions like this.

In other words, spend an hour to save $150 today, or spend an hour to possibly make $1000 two years from now.

(But I agree with the rest of your post, FWIW)

[polynomial]

> are you really saying you'd choose option #2?

This is such a great point. Because there is a world of difference between saying your time is worth $1k/hr, and walking the talk, as the phrase goes.