The Time Billionaires

In 2019, Graham Duncan, the cofounder of East Rock Capital, appeared on an episode of The Tim Ferriss Show.

During the conversation, Duncan proposed a concept that changed my life: the Time Billionaire.

A million seconds is 11 days. A billion seconds is slightly over 31 years. . . . I feel like in our culture, we’re so obsessed, as a culture, with money. And we deify dollar billionaires in a way. . . . And I was thinking of time billionaires that when I see, sometimes, 20-year-olds—the thought I had was they probably have two billion seconds left. But they aren’t relating to themselves as time billionaires.

The central point: time is our most precious asset.

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