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Your stock on the dating market goes way down if you’re in financial trouble, or if you have giant credit card balances.
Lisa Johnson Mandell • Become Your Own Matchmaker: 8 Easy Steps for Attracting Your Perfect Mate
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
Travis used to do something like this in college, never looking at his bank account or the receipts from the ATM so that he could have emotional deniability of just how broke he really was.
Will Leitch • How Lucky: A Novel
mental accounting,
Jonah Lehrer • How We Decide
It’s really just a question of financial security versus your psychic security, because of the time you afford yourself, or being on your own schedule. My energy gets really easily polluted by my environment, and if I’m in an environment that is really in opposition to myself for a very long time, it’s very hard for me to feel like I have the menta... See more
Cristine Brache • On holding yourself to a higher standard
We glibly make snap decisions about people’s spending using the most cursory data: Their job and their clothes give us most of what we think we need to know to understand someone’s financial situation.
Ramit Sethi • I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. Just a 6-Week Program That Works (Second Edition)
Shouldn’t Taylor Swift’s earliest fans—who helped her first gain traction—share in her success? The startup Pando provides income pooling among communities.
Rex Woodbury • The Business of Fame: 1920-2020
According to psychologist Brad Klontz, a pioneer in the field of financial therapy, most of us operate according to one of four key ‘money scripts’: money avoidance,