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Two quick points. First off, happiness is 1/3rd off now, at $50K per year: http://www.forbes.com/sites/learnvest/2012/04/24/the-salary-that-will-make-you-happy-hint-its-less-than-75000/
Secondly, to point #5: I have two Lego architecture sets I got for Christmas that I'm really enjoying not assembling yet. A cheap way to get your buy-now-consumer-later fix is to grab yourself an iTunes gift card, or credit with another shop where you can get a number of things for $15 (Amazon Kindle store, maybe?) The browsing knowing you can spend the money satisfies the shopping habit.
Commented May 4, 2012 on Buying Happiness at Coding Horror
Buying Happiness
Despite popular assertions to the contrary, science tells us that money can buy happiness. To a point. Recent research has begun to distinguish two aspects of subjective well-being. Emotional well-being refers to the emotional quality of an individual's everyday experience — the frequency and...
A small point: the phrase is “nip it in the bud”, as in “keep it from growing”. Normally I'd try and restrain myself from such pedantry, but “lick it in the bud” sounds like something very different!
Commented Jan 18, 2012 on The Short Second Life of Post Secret; or How Griefers, Sexters, and Haters Ruined an App in Only Four Months « The Learned Fangirl at A Whole Lotta Nothing
The Short Second Life of Post Secret; or How Griefers, Sexters, and Haters Ruined an App in Only Four Months « The Learned Fangirl
Today, the Post Secret app officially died. How things spiraled down so quickly is a highly cautionary tale for anyone who fully trust anonymity — and expects it not to become a tragedy of the commons. As Frank Warren, the founder of Post Secret, states on the website, this was a difficult decisi...
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