If you’ve ever held your breath while checking your bank balance before payday, you’re not alone—and regardless of where you are in terms of your discipline, living paycheck to paycheck is a reality for a staggering number of people across…
We’ve all screamed at the screen: Just tell them already. But they never do. The slow burn of unresolved tension between two characters in a TV show or movie can both excite and frustrate anyone. A character struggles with whether…
The first few months for new traders often begin with obsessive monitoring of their portfolio’s short-term performance, even when they’re supposedly investing for the long term. During this early phase, it’s easy to fall into common traps, like selling underperforming…
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being applied to fields that were once considered outside the scope of traditional computing, including the interpretation of animal sounds. The idea of chatting with your cat about her day or asking your dog why he…
Let’s be honest, people have been lying on their resumes since the invention of resumes. A little finessing here, a made-up title there, all in the name of catching a hiring manager’s eye. But now, with automated systems, unrealistic job…
I cannot sit through a movie with someone who rustles a popcorn bag and slurps so loudly like they’re trying to suck the soul out of a soda cup. Once the crinkle starts, it’s all I can hear. Dialogue? Gone.…
Today, to be called a bookworm implies focus, curiosity, and a love of learning. While traces of its negative past still linger in some corners, the word has largely been reclaimed by those who find joy and meaning in books.…
I’m an Apple fan. I use both Apple and Android, and I love them. But I’m sick and tired of this long standing stereotype. There’s a persistent belief in tech culture that Android users are somehow less successful, less refined,…
There’s a point when discovering new music stops being exciting. For some people, that point arrives suspiciously close to the moment they start calling everything on the radio “noise.” Growing up my parents dismissed my favorite songs as a racket.…
In the 1950s, the psychoanalyst Karen Horney described the narcissist not as someone who simply loves themselves too much, but as someone desperately hiding a wounded self-image beneath a curated facade. “The pride of the narcissist,” she wrote, “is not…
There’s a scene in the movie Good Will Hunting where the therapist, played by Robin Williams, looks at Will and says, “It’s not your fault.” He says it once. Then again. Then again—until the walls finally break and Will cries…
In 2002, a man named Jack Whittaker won $314 million in the Powerball lottery it’s the largest single-ticket win at the time. Within a few years, his granddaughter was dead of a drug overdose, his wife had left him, and…
We may say we believe in gender equality, but we still speak in ways that excuse men and condemn women. These ten phrases are proof. In 2003, the pop world turned on a 21-year-old named Britney Spears. She had just…
There are underlying issues that go beyond emotional splurge. Your bank account isn’t empty because of one too many takeout orders. There are deeper, uglier patterns draining your wallet and they’re not as obvious as you think. Here are 7…
In recent years the internet has become the birthplace of viral dances, comedic skits, and recently… “body count.” It’s become a common term to keep tabs on how many notches one has on their bedpost. Spend a few minutes scrolling…
Most of us were never really taught how to manage money beyond the basics: open a checking account and don’t spend more than you earn. But as adult life kicks in—student loans, car repairs, surprise dentist bills, dream vacations—it becomes…
It’s one of the most common personal finance questions, should you rent or buy your home? And as we step deeper into 2025, the answer isn’t getting any simpler. For years, homeownership was the assumed path to building wealth. But…
I was driving home from the grocery store on one of those wide two-lane roads that curves through town, I had the windows cracked and music playing low, and a kind of peace that comes with knowing dinner’s already in…
I had a roommate who threw out some homemade sauerkraut after just a week. Why? Because the internet told her it had gone bad. I said, “How could it be bad? It was already bad when I gave it to…
We tend to think of saving money as a purely logistical exercise: make a budget, spend less, invest the difference. Simple, right? Except it never is. Life is messy. We’re messy. And our relationship with money is usually entangled with…
