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What is the FIRE Movement?
For many, the standard retirement timeline looks like this: Work hard at your career until around age 65, then finally stop working and start enjoying life. But some are challenging this narrative by pursuing FIRE – Financial Independence, Retire Early.
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Google’s 70 qbit Qauntum computer. A refrigerator festooned with microwave cables cools the Google’s quantum chip nearly to absolute zero
A quantum computer is a type of computer that utilizes principles from quantum mechanics to perform computations. Unlike classical computers, which use bits to represent and process information as either 0 or 1, quantum computers use quantum bits, or qubits, which can exist in a superposition of both 0 and 1 states simultaneously.
The Daily Man-Up: Practice Choosing Discomfort
(photo: @anniespratt)
Practice choosing discomfort.
Our choice is between doing an uncomfortable thing now or having greater discomfort thrust upon us later. Because we procrastinators suck at choosing the lesser discomfort now, we effectively are choosing greater discomfort at times that are out of our control.
Making that choice is a skill. It has to be practiced to be developed. You can’t just start doing it easily today just like you can’t just start doing anything that requires skill.
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Linkage
How Much Should a Sandwich Cost? With inflation affecting the price of food, you might wonder if expensive sandwiches are worth it – The Takeout
CPI Report Shows Inflation Eased to 3% in June – WSJ
She Played ‘Pam Byrnes’ on Meet The Parents. See Teri Polo Now at 54 – Ned Hardy
She Played April O’Neil In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. See Judith Hoag Now at 60 – Wanderer
This machine has everything you need to make coffee shop quality espresso at home. With its 15 bars of pressure, integrated grinder, and milk frother, it offers a complete espresso experience – Amazon
Why can’t we stop homelessness? 4 reasons why there’s no end in sight – NPR
Tipping is ‘not a sustainable system,’ says 25-year-old pizza delivery driver: My income ‘relies on the goodwill of others’ – CNBC
Why a Traffic Flow Suddenly Turns Into a Traffic Jam – Nautilus
All 27 Pixar films ranked by their likelihood to make you cry – GQ
6 Key Signs You’re in a Toxic Relationship With Yourself – Stylist
5 tech tricks for learning a musical instrument – Popular Science
The mathematically correct way to tie your shoes – Big Think
Banksy’s Former Agent Shares Rare Photos Of The Artist’s ‘Terrible’ First Glasgow Show – Huffpost
Kaley Cuoco Believes Her Big Bang Sex Scenes Were a Twisted Prank – Ned Hardy
Why Jerry Seinfeld Turned Down $110 Million For Another Season of ‘Seinfeld’ – Wanderer
10 of the Oldest Inventions in Existence – Linkiest
The comic-book movie so bad it made Sean Connery quit acting: ‘His passion had left him’ – Independent
The Beloved Mexican Whistle That Means ‘Fuck You’ – VICE
We were all young once…check out this bad financial decision – Instagram
The Dumping Grounds
6 Horror Stories That Will Remind You To Never Co-Sign A Loan
1. Last summer I cosigned on a car loan for a then-friend. I have heard the “you idiot” speech from every imaginable source, so please spare me that. Long story short, he lost his high-paying job a few months after that out of nowhere, with no warning and no reason given to me.
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What is the Yield Curve?
The yield curve shows how interest rates on bonds change for different time periods. Bonds are basically loans that investors make to the government or companies. The investor gets paid an interest rate on the bond.
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Mark Zuckerberg training with UFC Champs Israel Adesanya and Alexander Volkanovski
Success Doesn’t Require Speed…It Requests Slowness
(photo: @derstudi)
So many people today are in a rush to become successful.
They want to earn 7-figures in 12 months even though they have no marketable skills, no network, and no businesses acumen.
They want to build their dream body in 12 weeks even though they haven’t set foot in a gym in years and don’t really understand the current state of their physical body.
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