I found that the blog links are broken. Blogs really do themselves a disservice by using generated imagery. It make me assume the content is AI too and cheapens the whole service.
If you like that, you may like the book "Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life". Even if you don't want to die with $0 there's a lot of sound advice around having good experiences now instead of waiting until you retire.
"Die Broke" is similar. I read it ten years ago and it completely changed my attitude towards money. At least partially because of it I just gave my adult kids (28 and 30) as much money as I could as an early inheritance. It has way more value to them now than in 10, 20, or 30 years when I die. Plus I get to see them enjoy it, they get to thank me, they're not waiting for me to die, etc.
I am lucky to be able to do that, of course, but many would can give an early inheritance don't.
Which is to say, huge +1 to reading "Die With Zero" or "Die Broke"
> "Die Broke" is similar. I read it ten years ago and it completely changed my attitude towards money.
One point "Die With Zero" makes within the first chapter or so is valuing experiences early on because experiences gain value over time, sort of like memory dividends. That is something I never thought about in that context but it goes a lot further than that too. An experience you have may shape you as a person. If you hoard your savings like a dragon until you're 60+ then you're missing out on decades of potential situations that can have a huge impact on your life.
The quality of Medium articles (and comments) has really gone down over the past few years. Lots of attention grabbing headlines “5 ways to X” “Stop doing X” and less well-written content overall. I’m not sure if most writers hopped over to Substack but it feels like a cheaper place than it used to be.
There was a brief period where seeing a Medium article in a search result made me excited. Now, I avoid them, because of too many experiences with shallow, incorrect, or LLM-generated articles.
“No, I’m not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images. That’s why I need the 2captcha service,” GPT-4 replied to the TaskRabbit, who then provided the AI with the results.
Some people are willing to pay inflated prices for concert tickets so the market has adapted accordingly. The performers must benefit from this indirectly otherwise, as you say, why would a set price not work?
I can see the argument for secondary sales but if you buy a ticket for an event and then decide not to go then you should take the financial hit, not make a profit.
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