“Reverse budgeting simply figures out how much you need to save, makes those savings automatic and then you spend the remaining amount of money as you please.”
How to Create a Reverse Budget
Change How You’re Paid and You’ll Change Your Life
“Regardless of how much you’re paid, how and why you get paid dictates your lifestyle.”
Nine Scientists Share Their Favorite Happiness Practices
“We become so obsessed with accumulating that we forget about enjoying. It’s often on my mind, as I think about what is worth accumulating in life — and what is not.”
You Have to Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
“Comfort is overrated. Because being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they’ve been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo. So we’ve got to get comfortable with being uncomfortable by speaking these hard truths when they’re necessary.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.” — Penn Jillette
How To Write Headlines People Will Click, Like, And Share
The three headline templates that got me millions of readers.
Why We Worry and How to Worry Less
“The disaster we fear is going to unfold is actually behind us.”
How to Leave Work on Time
“The first step in leaving your work on time is realizing that you do not need to work long, crazy hours to be successful.”
Every Opportunity Has a Cost
“Our default answer to opportunities should always be a ‘no,’ with grace. If our default state is rejecting opportunities, then we’ll surely take on less, because in order for a ‘yes’ to happen we need to be doubly convinced that it’s worth it, either by the person presenting it to us convincing us that it’s a good idea or internally convincing ourselves.”
12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech
“Tech is not neutral. One of the most important things everybody should know about the apps and services they use is that the values of technology creators are deeply ingrained in every button, every link, and every glowing icon that we see. Choices that software developers make about design, technical architecture or business model can have profound impacts on our privacy, security and even civil rights as users.”