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Psychology says the most addictive feature of social media isn’t the content you see. It’s the unpredictability of whether the next scroll will deliver something that ...

The slot machine in your pocket doesn't need better content to keep you scrolling — it just needs you to never know what's ...
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Behavioural science explains why the lower middle class experiences more financial anxiety than those below them — proximity to comfort without security creates a sp…

The people most anxious about money aren't the ones who have the least — they're the ones close enough to comfort to feel ...
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Experts finally settled the debate over charging your phone to 100%, and most of us had it wrong

The charging advice millions have followed for years turns out to be based on a half-truth — and the real threat to your phone's battery is something most people never consider.
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Psychology says people over 60 who reduce social media use report something unexpected. Not withdrawal, but the return of a kind of sustained attention they assumed aging had ...

They didn't get sharper by training their brains — they got sharper by removing the thing that was training their brains to never finish a thought.
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Psychology says people who need to be alone after socializing aren’t antisocial — they’re processing at a depth that most conversations never reach

My friend David is one of the most engaging people I know at a dinner table. He asks follow-up questions that make you feel like you’re the only person in the room. He remembers the name of your ...
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Psychology says the reason you feel exhausted after doing nothing all day isn’t laziness — it’s that unresolved decisions drain more energy than physical effort ever could

The most exhausting thing you did today wasn't any task on your list — it was the forty-seven decisions you haven't made yet sitting in the back of your skull like browser tabs draining the battery.
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6 Warren Buffett quotes that reveal the uncomfortable gap between what most people say they believe about money and how they actually behave

Most people can recite Warren Buffett's wisdom from memory — and then spend the next forty-eight hours doing the exact ...
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I’ve watched my parents age and realized the thing they’re most afraid of isn’t dying, it’s becoming invisible to people who used to need them

What my parents feared—what my mother especially feared—was a specific kind of death. Not the end of breathing. The end of ...
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I replaced my entire content workflow with AI for 90 days—here’s what actually happened to my income

On January 1st, I made a decision that would have been unthinkable to me a year ago. I handed over my entire content production process to AI tools. Every article outline, every first draft, every ...
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What 2019’s retail predictions revealed about platform economics

In December 2019, industry leaders gathered their boldest predictions for retail’s next chapter. They anticipated retail ...
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I turned 70 and realized I’ve spent my whole life being afraid of things that never happened, and now the only thing I’m afraid of is having wasted all that fear

I turned 70 last month, and on my birthday I did something I haven't done in decades: I made a list. Not a bucket list or a ...
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Warren Buffett’s “boring” money rule helped me save $34,000 in one year—most people overthink it

Tension: We treat saving money as a complex optimization puzzle when our greatest obstacle is the constant negotiation with ourselves. Noise: Financial advice industry profits fro ...