Money Psychology

A two-year collective existential crisis birthed an interesting phenomenon in 2022: quiet quitting. While the term primarily began proliferating around the recesses of TikTok, it didn’t take long for quiet quitting to catch fire in the mainstream media. Publications breathlessly debated the topic and took pretty predictable stances: Gallup asked if it was real, the […]

Last year, writer and activist Gabe Dunn came on The Money with Katie Show and said something insightful: “I can see some of [these personal finance experts] who, even if they started out as a ‘waitress’ or ‘a child of immigrants’…I know how quickly you can lose perspective. And it’s very quickly.” Their point was […]

As we near the end of March, I know what you’re thinking: Q1 is almost over! (No? Just me?) This year I decided to try something a little different when thinking about my 2023 ambitions. And while I’ve usually long defected from my best Jan. 1 intentions by the time we’re pulling up on the […]

tl;dr “We make the mistake of assuming that joy is like cash—that if we don’t “spend” it today, it can be invested (and grow larger) for the future. We assume there must be a payoff—otherwise, why delay it? Unlike with money, investing a bunch of joy for later doesn’t compound—it just guarantees you’ll enjoy less […]