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Plus: Why people show off, and struggling to spend money.

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Plus: The returns on AI, bubbles, and making your younger self proud.

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Plus, the obsession with minimalism, worrying in your 20s, and the barbell approach to investing.

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The disconnect between what you're trying to show and what other people see -- plus, demographics, influencers, and the role of luck.

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New skills that become more important in an AI world, the cost of living, and winning the lottery.

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More Americans than ever own stocks -- and helps explain part of why home prices have become detached from incomes.

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One of the most important financial skills: recognizing when things are abnormally good and realizing they won't last.

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Most forecasts are hyper-optimistic or hyper-pessimistic. Not enough attention to the possibility that the main outcome in 10 years is that all businesses are 20%-30% more productive and life goes on.

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Plus, a story about free money, and the dangers of telling people what they want to hear.

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Plus, the inability to spend when you've already saved enough, and the value of scarcity.

Plus, how to deal with minimalism, and what happens when everyone makes good financial decisions.

Read the article I mention, Grip Strength, by Jeremy Giffon here.

Plus, the dangers of making money your identity.

Plus, a great documentary I'd recommend.

Plus, a new name for this podcast: The Psychology of Money.

Plus, thoughts on earning passive wealth.

Plus, comparing the cost of things you love.

Plus, thoughts on the scarcity mindset with money.

The luckier you are the nicer you should be, plus three questions from you.

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Generational progress, wealth, and spoiled kids.

We're back! A list a few big things I've been thinking about lately.

This is a full-chapter preview of my new book, The Art of Spending Money, out today.

Click here to buy the book.

We became aware of each other at the same time we grew apart financially, and the psychology of when news went from local to national to global.

From the archives: one of my favorite topics -- the importance of playing your own game.

Thanks to my friends at Public.com

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Thanks to my friends at Public.com

All investing involves the risk of loss, including loss of principal. Brokerage services for US-listed, registered securities, options and bonds in a self-directed account are offered by Public Investing, Inc., member FINRA & SIPC. Public Investing offers a High-Yield Cash Account where funds from this account are automatically deposited into partner banks where they earn interest and are eligible for FDIC insurance; Public Investing is not a bank. Cryptocurrency trading services are offered by Bakkt Crypto Solutions, LLC (NMLS ID 1890144), which is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the NYSDFS. Cryptocurrency is highly speculative, involves a high degree of risk, and has the potential for loss of the entire amount of an investment. Cryptocurrency holdings are not protected by the FDIC or SIPC. Alpha is an experimental AI tool powered by GPT-4. Its output may be inaccurate and is not investment advice. Public makes no guarantees about its accuracy or reliability—verify independently before use.

Thanks to my friends at Public.com

All investing involves the risk of loss, including loss of principal. Brokerage services for US-listed, registered securities, options and bonds in a self-directed account are offered by Public Investing, Inc., member FINRA & SIPC. Public Investing offers a High-Yield Cash Account where funds from this account are automatically deposited into partner banks where they earn interest and are eligible for FDIC insurance; Public Investing is not a bank. Cryptocurrency trading services are offered by Bakkt Crypto Solutions, LLC (NMLS ID 1890144), which is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the NYSDFS. Cryptocurrency is highly speculative, involves a high degree of risk, and has the potential for loss of the entire amount of an investment. Cryptocurrency holdings are not protected by the FDIC or SIPC. Alpha is an experimental AI tool powered by GPT-4. Its output may be inaccurate and is not investment advice. Public makes no guarantees about its accuracy or reliability—verify independently before use.

Thanks to my friends at Public.com and their podcast The Rundown -- ⁠click here for more.⁠

Thanks to my friends at Public.com and their podcast The Rundown -- click here for more.

Thanks to my friends at ⁠⁠Ramp⁠⁠ -- the best expense accounting system I've seen. For more check out ⁠⁠ramp.com/morgan.

Thanks to my friends at ⁠Ramp⁠ -- the best expense accounting system I've seen. For more check out ⁠ramp.com/morgan.

Thanks to my friends at Ramp -- the best expense accounting system I've seen. For more check out ramp.com/morgan.

Thanks to my friends at Ramp -- the best expense accounting system I've seen. For more check out ramp.com/morgan.

Thanks to my friends at Ramp -- the best expense accounting system I've seen. For more check out ramp.com/morgan.

Thanks to my friends at Eight Sleep. Check out eightsleep.com/morganhousel for more.

The most impactful idea to me personally in my book: My theory is that most investment models maximize for risk-adjusted returns, but in the real world every investor wants to maximize for sleeping well at night and being proud of themselves in a complicated world.

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One of my favorite psychology studies showed that if you know a reward is coming, but you don't know exactly when, you are susceptible to losing your mind. Isn't it so similar in investing? 

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I heard a phrase recently: “Magazine architect.”

It’s a derisive term architects use for their colleagues who design buildings that look beautiful, grace magazine covers, and win awards, but lack functionality for the tenants.

The same is so true for financial professionals. If you are looking for practical advice, beware hiring an artist whose goal is to be praised should be, too.

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A few ideas on why prediction is so hard, and the weird things than happen in our head when we want certain outcome to be true. 

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Technology is a science. It’s semiconductors and code and batteries.

But Steve Jobs talked about how the iPad was playful and begged you to pick it up as much as he’d talk about its processor. The iPhone is a technological marvel, but Jobs spent a lot of time talking about how it felt in your hand, and the experience of opening the box.

Job’s insight, and the most important factor in Apple’s success, was realizing that technology isn’t merely a science. It’s just as much an art.

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A few things you might consider disadvantages that actually, in hindsight, could end up as something you're grateful for. 

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A simple formula for a pretty nice life is independence plus purpose.

Purpose is different for everyone. Sometimes it’s family, sometimes it’s community, religion, work, whatever.

But independence is more universal. Our desire to be independent, why we want it, what prevents us from achieving it, and why some people sabotage their ability to have it, is such a common story across cultures and generations.

Thanks to my friends at Eight Sleep. Check out eightsleep.com/morganhousel for more. 

A collection of things I've been thinking about lately that I hope you find valuable regardless of your profession. 

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A story about how tails drive everything, and why the vast majority of your success in investing and in life will come from just a few of the things you do. 

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Everyone knows one version of the world -- the one that's actually happened. But that's just one of infinitive possibilities that could have occurred. I asked ChatGPT to write different versions of how my life could have ended up, and was stunned by the results. I'd be you'd have the same experience.

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Most people – and definitely society as a whole – seem to have a minimum level of stress. They will never be fully at ease because after solving every problem the gaze of their anxiety shifts to the next problem, no matter how trivial it is relative to previous ones.

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A look at the big story dominating this year: tails drive everything, and everything from businesses to careers either work extraordinarily well, or not at all. 

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