I Was a Billionaire at 30 — This is What I Wish Everyone Understood About Time

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It’s impossible to talk about time without comparing it to something else. Have you noticed this?

We’re always “killing time”, “saving time”, “spending time”, “making up for lost time”, or “searching for lost time”; time can “drag”, it can “fly”, it can “hang heavy” over us; we can waste it, we can wither it away, we can try to stop it. But nobody has been able to tell us what it actually is. Unlike all our other senses, there’s not a single spot in the human brain where our sense of time can be processed.

It can seem as though time is the water we’re all swimming in, and that we’ll never break the surface. We believe that time will continue on for much longer than we will, long after it has any meaning for us as individuals, and that we can never “escape our bowl.”

One thing that time — absolutely and categorically — is not, however, is “money.”

I stubbornly refuse to compare the two, because the comparison is nothing short of nonsensical. Time will always be more valuable than money, and, while we can always make more money, none of us can ever make more time. That may be an obvious point, but how obvious is water to a fish?

Now you’re probably wondering whence I acquired my wealth. You know, where I got my…