Lester Golden
1 min readFeb 4, 2022

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"Make your appetites fit your possibilities." My Russian-Latvian wife's expression.

Time affluence, 1: 1 1/2-2 hours/day on a mountain bike in the forest and on the beach.

Time affluence, 2: writing Medium articles in my head while half awake 8-9 am.

Time affluence, 3: playing basketball 3 weekday evenings/week (pre-COVID) + weekends playing basketball with teenagers in the park.

Time affluence, 4: never ending sleep with an alarm.

Time affluence, 5: reading about the next civil war knowing you're safely out of the way (unless it goes nuclear).

Time affluence, 6: learning a new language in your mid 60s.

Time affluence, 7: drinking wine every day for dinner even though it's a knockout punch nap trigger.

Time affluence, 8: you know many former colleagues or students too busy to meet you more than every few months, but you're not too busy to meet them.

Time affluence, 9: status-seeking and social competition consume none of your time. What other people think of what you have is utterly meaningless.

Time affluence corollary to #9: you own stuff, stuff owns you.

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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