Fear, since time immemorial has been a key driver to human behavior. As kids, humans learn to take their first steps in spaces where they know they have the least chance of falling. Everything from fear of darkness, loud noises, physical pain tend to drive human behavior. Sometimes they don’t even know that fear is driving their decision making. It’s like muscle memory that was first built by some adverse reaction to an event. And that forever planted a fear in the mind. That fear results in a degree of determinism in behavior.

Perhaps this is something that mankind has learned to game. Product advertised on tv, are sometimes designed to implant a fear of not having something. Making the muscle memory of fear driving a product buy! And folks at Amazon thought they could do this with a mathematical algorithm. All they had to do was plant enough fear of not having something, and Mr. Bezos would have had mansion in mars today!

one of the few mean things that a programmer will encounter is an infinite loop. techies get a kick out of it so much so that some big tech companies name their street addresses after them. so what’s the obsessions with them? for the untrained reader, infinite loops are when program sequences get stuck between two points. they repetitively go from a to z and then back to a. many say that a few lines of code represent a sequence of events. each event is followed by another. so what happens when these loops are coded in? they are never intentional, but they still keep resurfacing, making programers lives hell.

perhaps life in some ways is also a badly written piece of code. from time to time an infinite loop is coded in. these loops are hard to detect. they slowly eat away at all resources till there is a complete system crash. can you find a loop you’re stuck in? how would you even know you’re in one?

Your time in the world is wealth you are spending constantly. It’s an asset no one really understands. Some people will claim to have optimized it. But have they really? It is like the bank account that has a constant management fee. It’s a deteriorating asset with or without you having to do anything. Every morning marks another dollar reduced in time currency for every one. Yet everyone will tell you that time is the most valuable asset you will have. Every successful person will ask you to ‘manage’ time well. At a high level, that’s great advice. In reality though, this gets challenging. Do they mean that since time continuously deteriorates, people should stop sleeping? They could be using that time for useful things. Perhaps that may be possible for some of us. Most succesful peopel allegedly sleep very few hours. But is that really how to make use of the asset called ‘time’? After all, every one has limited amount of it. It cannot be bought. The nature of this asset is grossly misunderstood.

Time is an asset that you should spend to the fullest, while you have it. It’s the roller coaster ride, that you can close you eyes on and not remember a thing of what happened, or go hands free, eyes wide open and live it to the fullest. The quantity of time for both ways is exactly the same, but the experience, wildly different. Unlike other assets, you are granted a limited amount but like most other assets, how you choose to spend it, is up to you.