But for me, and my boring technology firm, a conference like SXSW is not a good use of my time and resources.

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This means that you should always be trying to make good use of your time, and when you have an excess of another resource (e.g. money), you should seek to trade it for time.

FORBES: 1) Consider time your most precious resource.

Its high time we end this monopoly and make good use of the military budget to reinvest in US renewables and finally ween ourselves off of oil for once and for all.

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Presumably this is also a good time to exit the related business of harvesting timber for use in home building.

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Now it is time for the CIO to put that understanding of how the business supports IT to good use.

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In the panel conversation, the lack of good networks, better use of the emerging edtech incubators, the structure of federal research funding, the lag-time between learning and tangible results, and other things surfaced as additional facets of the problem.

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For the first time in the history of business software, small businesses can use software that is as good, if not better, than the software bigger corporations use.

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This makes the time doubly important, and it is draining away constantly whether or not you are making good use of it, so be sure to do so!

FORBES: 1) Consider time your most precious resource.