It Costs What It Costs
...Reality is indifferent to our preferences. There is no such thing as a fair price. Stuff—life—costs what it costs. You either pay it or you don’t...
An Economist Walks into a Brothel - Recommended Book
...A risk is more likely to work out if you are seeking a reward you actually want. It sounds so obvious, but we often take risks just because we want change. And when we do that, we often lose, no matter what happens...
The benefits of note-taking by hand
...Handwritten notes are a powerful tool for encrypting embodied cognition and in turn supporting the brain’s capacity for retrieval of information. And secondly, when you take notes by hand, your hands create a robust external memory storage: your notebook...
Study finds that sleep restriction amplifies anger
...Feeling angry these days? New research suggests that a good night of sleep may be just what you need...
7 Items Your Estate Plan May Have Left Out
...If your goal is to look out for your loved ones, consider tackling these estate-planning additional jobs...
How to Be Here - Recommended Book
...But you don’t have to know the seventeenth step. You only have to know the first step. Because the first number is always 1...
Efficient or productive?
...Productive is the skill of getting the right things done, so that we accomplish what we set out to do in the first place. The work that matters...
Quinoa-Banana Muffins
...we generally disagree with the basic cooking instructions given on quinoa packages, which usually call for too much water, and might explain why you don’t like quinoa...
How To Be Successful
...Most people get bogged down in linear opportunities. Be willing to let small opportunities go to focus on potential step changes...
The Curse of Bigness - Recommended Book
...Microsoft had proven the mantra that good artists copy but great artists steal...
Fill Up Your Canteen
...Whenever things quiet down for a minute and finally start clicking; whenever a conversation with family and friends leaves you bathed in an intoxicating glow; whenever you find yourself stirred by an unexpected moment of beauty; drink it in...
Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Constantly Changing World
...The less rigid we are in our thinking, the more open minded, creative and innovative we become...
Selling your time
...Often, what we care about is the work done, not how long it took to do it...
The Spider Network - Recommended Book
...“So how did a socially awkward English math whiz mastermind manipulation of lending rates on a global scale?”...
How Much Ambition Can a Marriage Sustain?
...We believe that couples often behave as though there is a set limit on the amount of ambition that can be contained within one union. Sometimes this limit is clearly articulated; sometimes it is unspoken, and the ambition can be distributed in different ways...
Nut Butter Granola Bars
...this just-sweet-enough, chewy-but-firm bar is bound together by peanut butter and honey...
Stuff to Do While Quarantined: Clean Up Financial Records
...Excavation and organization isn’t sexy or glamorous. But it can be liberating. It can be freeing. Once you’ve put in the work on cleaning things up (and admittedly that can take some time!), you’ll be able to focus on the things that really matter to you...
Masters of Modern Soccer - Recommended Book
...“Quality without results is pointless,” Cruyff famously said. “Results without quality is boring”...
Using A Family Dynasty 529 Plan For Multigenerational College Planning
...individuals who have both the means and desire can ‘overfund’ one or more 529 plan accounts (either by making periodic contributions over many years or by a large lump sum contribution), effectively creating a “Dynasty 529 Plan”, which can be used to pay for qualified education expenses of not only their children and grandchildren (or any number of qualified members in their extended family), but potentially for multiple generations of family members to come...
Drop in
...When you sort of commit, you’re likely to fall...
