Puri: Only calculate the hourly value of tasks you dislike
Shaan Puri · What’s truly going on inside DOGE? · Feb 17, 2025 · at 45:42
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr debate whether founders should constantly evaluate everyday household tasks by their effective hourly earnings rate.
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“There's a simple, simple solution to that, which is you only price things that you don't want to do. If you want to do it, you don't put a price on it. If you enjoy the, if it's therapeutic to you or what's it called? Like whatever... If it feels good to do the dishes or to like trim the bushes in your garden or whatever, like go do it, you know, no, you have at it. You don't need to be like, oh, this is an inefficient use of my time. You only price the things you don't want to do to say, you know what, am I wasting my time on stuff I don't even enjoy?”
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