Curated Links: 11/27/23

It’s Giving Tuesday: Charity Strategies the Wealthy Can Apply

When markets are down and interest rates are high, philanthropy can take a hit. Here are some ways that affluent consumers can make the most of their charitable giving.

Source: Kiplinger

90/90 Minimalism Rule

Look at a possession. Pick something. Anything. Have you used that item in the last 90 days? If you haven’t, will you use it in the next 90? If not, then it’s okay to let go.

Source: The Minimalists

Everything You Can’t Predict.

Predicting the future is easy, but predicting who wins in that future is much, much more difficult. By 2001, plenty of tech experts could have told you that cloud computing was going to emerge as an important technological development in a decade. But how many of those experts would have predicted that an online bookstore would dominate the cloud market?

Source: YoungMoney

Tech Doesn’t Make Our Lives Easier. It Makes Them Faster

Because we’re social animals we tend to go along with the trend, and because we live under capitalist acceleration the trend is always one way, because our system only has one gear. We also have the ability to edit our memories, so can find ways to convince ourselves that this was all our own choice. That very same adaptability, though, prevents us from using the new tech to save time, because – under a system with a growth fetish – we’ll be expected to adapt to a new normal in which we have to do more stuff and get more stuff in the same amount of time.

Source: Brett Scott

The Key to Good Luck Is an Open Mind

Really lucky people may have a specific set of skills that bring chance opportunities their way.

Source: Nautilus

Are You Living Your Ideal Life?

You could start living your ideal life now. Unless, of course, you have intentionally decided to wait for whatever reason.

Source: Retire By 40

The Mansion Next Door

It turns out that when people make enough money to meet their needs, they just find new things to need and new lifestyles to aspire to; they never quite manage to keep up with the Joneses, because whenever they’re in danger of getting close, they nominate new and better Joneses with whom to try to keep up.

Source: Accidentally Retired