Alexander Ryzhov
Jan 15, 2025

Money is a resource

You shouldn’t attach to money emotionally. Money come and go, all the time.

Money is a resource to implement your ideas, no more than that. They can be managed only in the case of efficient application, not pointless saving “for the future”. What is the future? Do you know what X amount of your saved money or physical values will be affected by tomorrow? Are you sure?

I’d been saving money once, and then i lost it all due to a mistake. And what’s next? I earned it from scratch. Does it matter much? No. What matters: ideas, great stuff you’re producing. Ideally - great products give money to meet basic needs and invest in the next cool thing. That’s the cash flow i want to stick to. I don’t want to be a richy nerd who is sitting out big numbers in the bank. I want money to do the work they intended to do. That doesn’t mean you should go all-in in every idea you have. Any resource must be managed, and if you manage well, you can have a better chance to try several ideas, see what worked best.

Some time ago i’ve written a good thought about Fuel and Fire and in this sense money is the fuel. They need fire to become really useful stuff - to be spent on implementing things you want to achieve.