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People love to talk online about how to make good money—enough to buy a yacht and sail across foreign seas. But very little attention is given to how to actually spend that money (or how not to do it). How do you plan your expenses so that the hard-earned cash you strive to make is enough? The society we live in is highly consumer-driven. The entire economy is built not on selling better quality products and services but on selling more stuff. If you start earning more, your expenses will increase too. There are American families making $20,000 a month yet drowning in debt. If you don’t know how to manage money when you’re poor, you’ll stay poor even if you become rich. ...

We all want too wrap up our day with as least unanswered emails as possible right? Sometimes we even do “zero inbox” method and then we can sleep well. But what would happen if we get an answer from the same person, who wants to wrap up the day with empty inbox? Then we play the game - “who gives up first”. It’s even worse if we have email notifications on, because then at some point we’d need to deliberately postpone email for tomorrow. Solution might be - schedule email send for tomorrow at 8:00. Let’s drill down in more details. ...

We often hear advices write everything down like it would guarantee, that information we write down - would make sense and stay in our minds forever. Another common recommendation - if You need to take a decision write down pros and cons, like if we were robots. Would it actually help us to take a decision? What about our hearts? They further we go with technology progress the more we try to treat everything as mechanical system, even ourselves. If we don’t want to do anything even though we think it’s super useful for us - we search for a million ways how to push ourselves to something that we don’t actually want to do. What if, after so many years of innovation - we are still humans? What if we still have our “hearts” that whisper to ourselves what we really want, but we want to listen to much more “rational” way of thinking? Perhaps - to really understand what do we want we’d need to sit in silence for couple of minutes and listen to ourselves and then we’d understand. ...

A Brief History Black swans exist in real life. Long ago, it was believed that they didn’t. The term “black swan” was used to describe something that was fundamentally impossible because swans were thought to be only white. What Happened Next? When it was discovered that black swans actually do exist, the meaning of the phrase changed. A “black swan” came to signify an event that no one expected could happen, but which ultimately did. ...

Resting - is such a simple thing to do. We do work - then we rest, until it’s time to do work again. Well today - we have so many tech tools that aim to make our lives better, simpler and free up a lot of time. However - perhaps Purpose of Technology is not to do that. Perhaps it’s meant, so that we could do even more “useful” stuff and forget about rest even further. Otherwise - why do we have such term “burnout” today? ...