In 2001 two MIT professors ran a sealed-bid auction for tickets to a Boston Celtics game. Real tickets, real money, genuine bids. Half the bidders were told that if they …
Work & Money
Money Worry Costs You Attention. Most of the Famous Number Is Something Else.
by BetterYou+
One number from this field has escaped into general circulation: that being short of money costs you the equivalent of about thirteen IQ points, in the moment, while you are …
Three to six months of expenses. It is the most repeated number in personal finance, it appears in almost every guide, and nobody can tell you where it came from. …
There are two ways to order the repayment of several debts, and the internet has been arguing about them for twenty years. The avalanche pays the minimum on everything and …
Relationships
Put the Plate Down: What the Research Says a Stepparent Should Not Do First
by BetterYou+
A 2025 study of 421 adults raised in stepfamilies found the worst outcomes where the stepparent imposed rules and replaced the other parent. What to do instead, and what to …
Search for grandparents and grandchildren and you will be handed a list. Bake something together. Plant seeds. Make a memory jar. Record their stories. Do a jigsaw. None of it …
The claim comes from a 2013 Cambridge report. It found cognitive readiness by seven — not a closed window — and concluded that explicit financial teaching for young children is …
Autonomy support and psychological control can occupy the same forty minutes and produce opposite outcomes. What the difference sounds like in the moment, and why ‘step back more’ is only …
Marketplace insurers denied 19% of in-network claims in 2024 and fewer than 1% were appealed. The deadlines, what the denial actually means, and what to do with the letter.
There is one number in productivity advice that everybody knows: after an interruption, it takes twenty-three minutes and fifteen seconds to get back to what you were doing. It is …