David M Werdiger

David M Werdiger Wealth of Time | Power of Pause | Family Office Generalist | Best-selling Author | Reformed Candy Crusher

David is an experienced technology entrepreneur, strategic thinker and advisor, philanthropist and not-for-profit innovator, public speaker and author. He has thousands of ideas and is always creating new ways of looking at the ordinary to make it better. His capacity to think quickly through options and synthesise outcomes makes him a powerhouse in any conversation. With a generosity of mind and heart, his eye is always on creating ways to help those in his community.

08/06/2026

Family wealth isn’t just about preparing the next generation to inherit.
It’s about preparing them to contribute.

That requires more than a seat at the table.
It requires a voice that’s heard, respected, and taken seriously.

Good stewardship starts with good conversations.

04/06/2026

We weigh risk very strangely as a society.

We passed emergency legislation to keep teenagers off social media. But we're loosening federal controls on a substance with well-documented neurological risks for developing brains under 21.

What does that tell us about what we're actually trying to protect our kids from?

Full story worth reading: https://on.wsj.com/4o6p4oF

01/06/2026

Success isn’t a number.

It’s waking up excited for the day ahead.
It’s seeing your children thrive and your grandchildren laugh.
It’s being part of a family that celebrates each other’s joys and carries each other through the hard times.

That’s a kind of wealth no balance sheet can measure.

28/05/2026

Started my career betting on time decay in options markets. Then built a business selling my own time by the hour. The irony took a while to land.

Your time compounds or it erodes. Most people treat it like a salary. But what most don’t realize is that there’s a better model and time is the real asset.

26/05/2026

There's a pattern to how platforms rise and fall. Critical mass looks permanent, until a whole generation quietly moves on.

Adults endlessly talk about changing their phone habits. Younger people are actually doing it, voluntarily downgrading to brick phones just to reclaim their attention.

The most countercultural thing you can do right now is slow down. Young people are figuring that out before the rest of us.

25/05/2026

Families spend years building businesses, assets, and legacies.

But underneath all of it sits something more important: the foundation.

And the foundation is communication.

Not just talking — but listening, creating space for every voice, and learning how to communicate with curiosity instead of assumption.

Because no structure can endure if the foundation beneath it is weak.

We've become so overstimulated by technology that we now need technology to help us relax.A new category of "immersive w...
21/05/2026

We've become so overstimulated by technology that we now need technology to help us relax.

A new category of "immersive wellness" is emerging, biometric-responsive lighting, synchronized sound, scent diffusion and it’s all designed to treat the frayed nerves and shrinking attention spans that, by no coincidence, the same technology helped create.

One facility opening in Austin will cover 25,000 square feet and read your body's data in real time to deliver awe and transcendence on demand.

I don't doubt it works. But I keep coming back to what it says about us that we need all of this to achieve something humans have managed since forever, sitting still, breathing, letting the mind settle.

A walk. Silence. A meal without a screen. These things are free, available everywhere, and they've been working for millennia. We've somehow made them feel insufficient.

The spa industry isn't creating this problem. It's just meeting the demand, which is what markets do. The real question is why we've let the conditions for natural restoration erode so completely that a 25,000 square foot immersive bathhouse starts to look like the reasonable option.

The WSJ piece on this is worth a read: https://on.wsj.com/4tXR6UU

I've spoken at family office conferences about succession and governance many times. This was different: I spoke of time...
19/05/2026

I've spoken at family office conferences about succession and governance many times. This was different: I spoke of time as an asset class and our most precious resource, and one that's being quietly eroded.

Just as inflation slowly erodes the value of financial assets, invasive technology is eroding our time and desocialising us. That landed. Not because it's a new idea… everyone in the room knew they had a problem with their phones, but because most people don't know where to start.

A full day off each week feels too distant for many. So there's real value in a spectrum of options, starting small and going as far as someone is willing.

Two moments stood out. One attendee sends his kids to a school on a ranch — no phones, plenty of physical activity. Another asked me a good question: how have I noticed a difference across my six days on the phone?

Honestly, I still use my phone a lot. But knowing I'll take a full break from it every week makes me feel more in control during the other six. The pause changes the week around it.

18/05/2026

People often assume wealth transition is mainly about legal structures or financial strategy.

But my work has never really been about the money itself.

It’s about the non-financial side of family wealth — relationships, communication, values, trust, and helping families navigate succession in a way that strengthens, rather than fractures, the generations around it.

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