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Your Shrinking Pile of Money This is the second article in the get money series. Now that you understand how money works in our current economic system, we’ll take a look at how we can use this to our advantage. From the get money article, you should realize that just by having money, it’s already [...]

What Is Money? The most common answer would probably be something along the lines of “something you buy stuff with”. While that answer is not wrong, it’s only a very very limited view of what money actually is. For example, did you know that if you leave your money in the bank gathering interest, you [...]

These days, practically everyone has a car. In fact, people buy a car when they’re 16 and don’t have the money for it, which is extremely reckless since you should save money while you’re young. In general, people seem to expect you to have a car (especially in California) as soon as you can afford [...]

The short answer is, you don’t! At least not in the conventional sense of the word. Let’s start from the beginning. At some point, there is this environment we seem to exist in. Then, there’s a lot of people, each deciding to do their own thing. Then, while you’re doing your thing, you realize that [...]

Many people are afraid of asking for a raise for some reason, which is extremely strange to me. It seems that people are in general afraid of being fired, or somehow making things bad in the workplace. However, that is extremely unlikely. Let’s take a look from the employer’s perspective. When you do a job, [...]

This is an age old question that everyone has thought about at some point. Logically, I come to the conclusion that the meaning of life is to exist. I will use set theory for this argument. We will start by picking anything (call it y) that exists and adding it to a set X. Then, [...]

As INTJs, we love to build things and increase efficiency. However, why do we want to do these things? This is of course, related to what our perception of the meaning of life. Let’s take a look at our history to see how things got to this point. At one point, we can assume that [...]

“I’ll do it later” – it’s one of the most common phrases that is uttered, and we’ve all been guilty of that at some point or another. Other variants include “I’ll do it when…” or “I can’t do it because…”. That’s all fine and good, except when the reason is really weak, like “I don’t [...]

Many people like to think that in order to make money, you need to have some sort of job, where you work for a boss and then get paid. While this is true to some extent, this is very small and limited view of how money works. First, it is beneficial to understand how exactly [...]

When trying to increase our efficiency, we essentially care about producing the maximum amount of work in a given unit of time. This section will share tips for maximizing your efficiency. In order to have more time to do the things that we want to do, we should start by looking at where we spend [...]

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