Every year~1.5% of your networth is lost and it’s unrecoverable

Yep. Life is short.

Jessica Lam
5 min readJan 12, 2016

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Time. It’s the most valuable and yet most neglected asset we have. The stock market may dip from time to time, but most likely it will recover over time. However, our time alive, once lost, will most likely never be recovered.

Take a deep breath, let that reality wash over you, count to 3.

Go buy this poster

That’s 3 seconds you’ll never get back. Sorry! 😱

The idea of “time loss” is a strange concept to grasp, we all know it’s true, but we neither want to acknowledge it, nor do we behave accordingly. As we make plans for this new year, I believe this is one of the most important truth to keep in mind. Everything from career, relationships, money, and of course daily activities hinges on whether or not we can properly evaluate from this point of view.

Step 1: Replace “time” with “life” in all your sentences.

Work

I think it’s an absolute privilege to have a job that you love / really like, I don’t think…

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Jessica Lam

Engineer mind, artist soul, nomad spirit, entrepreneur drive. Serial entrepreneur, technical advisor, multiple exits.