#024 | Money vs Time Ownership

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June 20, 2021

Hey friends,

Time Ownership is one of my areas of priority, where I aim to gain back 100% control of my OWN time.

When you are a kid, you are financially poor but rich in time ownership. You (kind of) get to do whatever you want but faces small restrictions because you are relying on your parents financially.

As you grow older, you learn to sell portion of your time for money to survive and other activities. You no longer control 100% of your time. You now need to ask for permission to take “holidays from work”, which it’s the equivalent of asking someone if you can spend your OWN time. Assuming you sleep for 8 hours a day, that means you have sold AT LEAST 50% of your waking hours to an external entity! That’s madness 🤯

To measure how much control you have over your time, I used a simple proxy question:

Would you be able to travel around the world for 6 - 12 months, starting next week?

If your answer is yes, then you probably have a strong control over your time! ❤️

If your answer is no, it’s probably because you have sold a large portion of your time to an external entity and so you won’t be able to make that decision unless you take back control of your time!

The ideal scenario is obviously to be “rich” financially and in time ownership. The first step is to be aware of how little control you have over your time. Once you are aware, then you can slowly strategise ways to get those precious time back!

This week I am reading:

  1. The Laws of Human Nature (26th Apr - 20th Jun)

  2. Effortless (28th May - In Progress)

Total: 38 / 26 books | 3 / 26 level 4 notes | 2 / 12 actions

❓Question of the Week

Would you be able to travel around the world for 6 - 12 months, starting next week?

Share your thoughts by replying to this email. I would love to hear from you! 👻 👻 👻

🐦 Tweet of the Week

💡 Quote of the Week

In the animal kingdom, individuals define themselves in one of two ways—by their rank within a hierarchy (a hen in a pecking order, a wolf in a pack) or by their connection to a territory (a home base, a hunting ground, a turf) —The War of Art

🔥 Recommendation(s) of the Week

No recommendations this week.

🔦 AI Research - Personal Knowledge Graph

This excites me the most about knowledge graph; to be able to create personal knowledge graph and connect different pathways together!

Proposed the research agenda for personal knowledge graph (PKG), which it's highly relevant for how we plan to use knowledge graphs. A PKG is a knowledge graph that focuses on individuals and important structured information about them, which it's different from general knowledge graph. PKG has a central user node where every other nodes (information about the user) are connected to. The paper outlined four key research questions to enable and construct a PKG:

  1. Knowledge Representation - How should entities and relations be represented given the sparsity nature of personal information?

  2. Entity Linking - How can entity linking be performed against a PKG, where structured entity information is potentially absent? And when should entity linking be performed against a PKG as opposed to a general-purpose KG?

  3. Population and Maintenance - How can we automatically update PKGs?

  4. External Resources Integration - How can we continuously integrate external knowledge sources into PKGs?

🎥 This Week on YouTube

Due to unforeseeable challenges, there will be no new youtube video this week! I will try to get back up to speed as soon as possible. Meanwhile, here are some of my previous videos 😊

That’s it for this week! I hope you find something useful from this newsletter. More to come next Sunday! Have a good week ahead! 🎮

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