Scarcity: Why Having: Too Little Means So Much

View downtime as a functional necessity, not a luxury.

📍 We don’t make bad decisions because we are incapable; we make them because scarcity consumes the mental resources we need to succeed. Scarcity: Why having too little means so much

Whether it’s deadlines or dollars, the mechanism is the same: View downtime as a functional necessity, not a luxury

You need "slack" (extra space) to be efficient. View downtime as a functional necessity

Over-commitment creates a "time scarcity" cycle.

Long-term planning fails when short-term survival dominates. ⏳ Time vs. Money