Knowledge Depreciation Curve

The reality of technical debt applies to our own careers. Treating the calendar as a capital allocation exercise completely changes the framing of "professional development."

If the half-life of technical knowledge is down to 18 months, an hour a day isn't a luxury—it's the baseline maintenance fee to stop your expertise from depreciating.

For the strategists and builders here: How do you actually protect that 10% block from operational creep? Do you treat it as a hard boundary on Friday afternoons, or has it required shifting to an entirely different daily routine to keep the day-to-day noise from swallowing it?

That 10% R&D block is the hardest part of the calendar to protect. I’m curious: For those managing high-output teams, do you bake this 'Re-Learning' time into your sprints, or is it strictly individual overhead?

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