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Author Elizabeth Gilbert on time management:

“If you’ve reached a certain age then you know what works for you. You should know by this point in your life what time of day you’re ‘good' — like what time of day is your brain at its best. Because the reality is we all get, maybe, two good hours a day where we actually feel awake and alert.

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jamesclear.com • 3 Ideas, 2 Quotes, 1 Question (November 14, 2019) | James Clear

The Catholic legal scholar Cathleen Kaveny has argued that the reason so many of them are so unhappy—despite being generally very well paid—is the convention of the “billable hour,” which obliges them to treat their time, and thus really themselves, as a commodity to be sold off in sixty-minute chunks to clients. An hour not sold is automatically a... See more

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

What we spend resources on is a big part of our identity

Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change

We charge our credit card for different purchases and then quickly forget about them. We borrow from what we intended to save. We don’t think about big bills when they’re not in our monthly budget. We move money between savings and checking and rainy-day funds just so we can do something “special” with them.

Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense

Behavioral inefficiencies may be at once the most persistent source of opportunity and the most difficult to capture

Michael Mauboussin • Who Is On the Other Side?

With respect to health, romance, and money, it is not at all hard to exploit people’s lack of information.

Cass R. Sunstein • Nudge: The Final Edition

Daniel Kahneman, Jack L. Knetsch, and Richard H. Thaler, “Anomalies: The Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion, and Status Quo Bias,” Journal of Economic Perspective 5, no. 1 (1991): 193– 206, http://users.tricity.wsu.edu/~achaudh/kahnemanetal.pdf

Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

We live less and less of our lives in the same temporal grooves as one another. The unbridled reign of this individualist ethos, fuelled by the demands of the market economy, has overwhelmed our traditional ways of organising time, meaning that the hours in which we rest, work and socialise are becoming ever more uncoordinated. It’s harder than eve

Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.

we can try to shorten the distance between our actions and the money in question.