Frugality Is Precision, Not Deprivation

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Frugality has a bad reputation. It sounds like eating cold beans from a can while wrapped in a blanket because you can’t afford heating. It brings to mind images of people obsessively counting pennies, reusing tea bags, and missing out on life because they’re too scared to spend. But that’s not frugality. That’s a scarcity … Read more

AI and the Golden Era of Instant Gratification

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In the late 1960s, a Stanford psychologist named Walter Mischel put preschoolers in a room with a marshmallow. The rules were simple: eat it now, or wait fifteen minutes and get two. Some kids ate immediately. Others waited. Mischel tracked them for decades. Turned out that the ones who waited had better SAT scores, lower … Read more