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Psychology says the most addictive feature of social media isn’t the content you see. It’s the unpredictability of whether the next scroll will deliver something that ...

The slot machine in your pocket doesn't need better content to keep you scrolling — it just needs you to never know what's ...
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Behavioural science explains why the lower middle class experiences more financial anxiety than those below them — proximity to comfort without security creates a sp…

The people most anxious about money aren't the ones who have the least — they're the ones close enough to comfort to feel ...
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6 subtle signs a retired person has replaced the identity and purpose their career once provided with the hollow validation cycle of likes and notifications

The career ended, the applause didn't have to — it just migrated to a screen small enough to fit in a palm and large enough to swallow an identity whole.
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The reason you feel exhausted after an hour of scrolling but energized after an hour of walking isn’t about screens versus nature. It’s about consumption without completion.

The fatigue you feel after scrolling isn't about blue light or lazy habits — it's about what happens to a mind that starts hundreds of tiny journeys and never arrives anywhere.
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Experts finally settled the debate over charging your phone to 100%, and most of us had it wrong

The charging advice millions have followed for years turns out to be based on a half-truth — and the real threat to your phone's battery is something most people never consider.
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Psychology says people over 60 who reduce social media use report something unexpected. Not withdrawal, but the return of a kind of sustained attention they assumed aging had ...

They didn't get sharper by training their brains — they got sharper by removing the thing that was training their brains to never finish a thought.
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I spend more on being careful with money than wealthy colleagues spend on convenience — the hidden financial tax of lower middle class life that nobody talks about

The cruelest financial trick isn't being unable to afford things — it's spending more money precisely because you can't afford to get anything wrong.
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Psychology says people who need to be alone after socializing aren’t antisocial — they’re processing at a depth that most conversations never reach

My friend David is one of the most engaging people I know at a dinner table. He asks follow-up questions that make you feel like you’re the only person in the room. He remembers the name of your ...
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Psychology says the reason you feel exhausted after doing nothing all day isn’t laziness — it’s that unresolved decisions drain more energy than physical effort ever could

The most exhausting thing you did today wasn't any task on your list — it was the forty-seven decisions you haven't made yet sitting in the back of your skull like browser tabs draining the battery.
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6 Warren Buffett quotes that reveal the uncomfortable gap between what most people say they believe about money and how they actually behave

Most people can recite Warren Buffett's wisdom from memory — and then spend the next forty-eight hours doing the exact ...
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Marketing companies spent billions consolidating data and got breaches instead of precision

In June 2010, the direct marketing division of Equifax was acquired by Alliance Data Systems for $117 million. The deal ...
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I’ve watched my parents age and realized the thing they’re most afraid of isn’t dying, it’s becoming invisible to people who used to need them

What my parents feared—what my mother especially feared—was a specific kind of death. Not the end of breathing. The end of ...