brief tips and snippets of useful life hacks that can serve you as decision shortcuts
Do you remember the last idea that you took from a book? Back in 2019, I set myself the goal to read a book per week and then read 52 books. For 2020 I told myself that quality trumps quantity and…
What is important for your important decisions Life is all about decisions – those thousands of decisions that we take every single day. And luck – lots of luck in a world of randomness and serendipity. A life-skill I have…
Me pondering about where I am and what I have achieved: I don’t reach optimum contribution levels because I believe everything is important. Sounds familiar? In truth, only a few things are essential. To practice the skill of identifying those…
At the beginning of 2019, I set myself the goal to read a book per week. I believe reading is “learning accelerated”. In a handful of hours, I get to absorb what took someone else years to accumulate, understand, distill,…
Had a chat with my sons. I thought at their age of 20 and 18 (soon) it is about time for some real adult talk. So I asked them whether they’d prefer wisdom or gold. The unanimous answer was gold.…
Are you yearning for retirement? But retirement has an image problem. What kind of mental picture does this word conjure up for you — sunny beaches and no longer having to set an alarm clock? Or a stressful feeling about…
The centerpiece of your identity and life’s purpose? A means to get richer than your neighbor to become happy? Or actually richer than the rest of the world? Thanks to the internet “we can compare ourselves to every humblebragger from…
How do you value time versus money? Let’s first understand a crucial difference between them: As a personal commodity, money is extremely elastic, in that you can theoretically accumulate an infinite amount of it. Time, by contrast, is intrinsically inelastic:…
To grow your nest-egg you can earn more or invest more. Wherever you look there are reports on robots taking our jobs. Are you a bit scared of AI and robots yet? When my generation entered the workforce in the…
Sorry, what did you say? “You are a bit late with your forecast, Tacomob. It’s already February!” Well, dear reader, what’s a year anyway? It’s merely the orbital period of the Earth moving in its orbit around the Sun. But…