Being "a good saver" DOESN'T make you good with money
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Being "a good saver" DOESN'T make you good with money
The value of money is determined
entirely
by the purposes you use it for.
entirely
by the purposes you use it for.
My 6 Rules of Money
If you go over your grocery budget for the month, that is neither good nor bad. It is a useful signal – your past self communicating to your present self that she has needs and priorities different from what you expected.
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
(My experience has taught me that money, like any tool or technology, is an improved means to an unimproved end: It offers real solutions to imaginary problems and imaginary solutions to real problems.)
James J. Sexton • How to Stay in Love: A Divorce Lawyer's Guide to Staying Together
@gregisenberg This approach seems to depend a lot on brand and signaling. @wwwsublimeapp is great, and I’m a happy paying user, but they’re selling more than a social PKM. It’s a movement.
Are you seeing successful examples that are more utilitarian in their messaging?
Being brilliant won’t save you if no one can count on you.
It can be hard to appreciate just how much reliability impacts opportunity. It’s fun to outperform people who are way smarter than you by being more reliable than they are.
Reliability isn’t just a virtue – it’s a competitive advantage that compounds over time.
It can be hard to appreciate just how much reliability impacts opportunity. It’s fun to outperform people who are way smarter than you by being more reliable than they are.
Reliability isn’t just a virtue – it’s a competitive advantage that compounds over time.
Shane Parrish • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
At the end of the day, that’s what being “good with money” is about: trusting yourself with money.