...Your view of the world is no photograph. It’s a construction of your brain that is so fluid and so convincing that it appears to be accurate. But sometimes it’s not...

...When we asked participants about the ease associated with using their top rule, we found negative correlations between how difficult they perceived practicing the rule to be and their financial well-being. In other words, the easier it was for a person to make these decisions, the more financially well-off they were...

...luscious no-bake beauty...

...I was wiped out. But, it was only 11 a.m., and I had a long list of things to finish before the weekend...

...As Columbia Business School professor Eric Johnson explained to us, the more meaningful a potential loss is, the more loss averse we become. In other words, the more there is on the line, the easier it is to get swept into an irrational decision...

...We make a map so we can leave things out...

...Relentlessly prioritize to avoid the wrong high-quality work... (Ed. note: we would recommend these recommendations to others, not just people in a startup)

...These seven strategies will help keep you on the ball for this tax season and in preparing for the future... (Ed. note - speak to us if any/all apply to you as these recommendations are general, not specific to you)

...“There’s a big difference between probability and outcome. Probable things fail to happen—and improbable things happen—all the time.” That’s one of the most important things you can know about investment risk...

...The Law of Triviality states that the amount of time spent discussing an issue in an organization is inversely correlated to its actual importance in the scheme of things...

...These light and eggy cheese puffs are channeling your favorite bar snack...

...Holding back is selfish, because it deprives the group of your insight at the same time that it normalizes non-participation...

...Greed leads many investors to seek shortcuts to investment success. Rather than allowing returns to compound over time, they attempt to turn quick profits by acting on hot tips...

...It would do us well to give ourselves more credit—we’ve all survived occurrences that once seemed like the worst-case scenario, and we can survive many more...

...Ideas will be generated much faster than there's bandwidth to execute on them, so you're doing something right if your backlog is growing indefinitely...

...Perhaps there are many solutions that do not even occur to us, because they resemble passivity rather than action, and we are so deeply trained to hustle...

...To begin you must study the end. You don’t want to be the first to act, you want to be the last man standing...

...The antidote is persistent vigilance and heroic leadership...

...A Spanish twist on brussels and bacon done in the style of a stir-fry. Wait till the last minute to pull this dish together, but have everything prepped and ready to go ahead of time...

...Throughout the U.S., there are over 10,000 state parks, home to thundering herds of bison (like in South Dakota's Custer State Park), colorful thousand-foot-tall cliffs (found in Palo Duro Canyon in Texas), and some of the country's highest waterfalls (at Tennessee's Fall Creek Falls). Plus, state parks are generally less crowded, more affordable to visit, and, often, more pet-friendly than national park alternatives...