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Seneca: time is the only real resource

The point, in one line

You can get more money and more people. You cannot get more time, and it is the one thing nobody plans.

How it works

The budget has a spreadsheet. The hours have nothing — and Seneca says time is the one thing you cannot get more of: meetings cost, 'later' means 'never', and the worst outcomes are worth thinking through tonight.

Meetings costtwelve people for an hour and a half is eighteen hours
'Later' means 'never'the handover nobody thinks about until two weeks before the end
Premeditatio malorumspeaker absent, projector dead, twenty people come — one sentence each
Three places where your hours disappear. All three can be plugged in a single meeting.
The same thing, in your club
  1. The situation

    Two weeks to the event, the team meets weekly for an hour and a half, and the speaker has still not confirmed.

  2. What the model says

    Twelve people for an hour and a half is eighteen hours in a single meeting; if no decision comes out, those hours are simply gone.

  3. What you do

    Give this meeting ten minutes for three scenarios — the speaker does not come, the projector fails, twenty people turn up — and write one sentence for each.

What it claims

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Who created it

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65) — a historical likeness
Engraving, 1891, after the Berlin marble herm — the one reliably identified likeness.PD-Meyers — Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, c. 1891
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65)
c. 65

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Rights and licence
Public domain

The primary source is in the public domain: it may be read, quoted and reprinted freely.

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The student version
Seneca: time is the only real resource

The same work written for a member: what to do with it in the club.

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