What is money for? It can be for fun, it can provide a sense of control or safety, or it can be a metric people use to tell if they are winning in life. For the wealthy, it's certainly the latter.
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Buying Choices: How Unspent Money Can Shape Your Future Installing Material Web Components for use in a Sveltekit Application I recently switched this website from IBM's Carbon design system to the Material UI web components library. Carbon was appealing for it's solid support and a Svelte-specific library, but I found its corporate aesthetic felt somewhat rigid, with limited customization options.
Life's Best Training Partner Much of our society is built on the institution of marriage, yet it is one of the few arrangements we commonly enter into that can be incredibly dangerous. The statistics on first-time marriages, while not as dire as the overall average, have a painfully high failure rate (40%). A marriage ending poorly can have ripple effects, decimating your net worth and complicating the rest of your life.
Make Before You Manage No matter what your job title is, we are all managers. We are managers of one. But beyond managing what we're paid for, we all have to manage competing priorities and demands: trying to deliver value on a timeline, while also dealing with dentist appointments, attending meetings, maintaining fitness, doing home improvement projects, scheduling car maintenance, and maintaining relational health.
Richard Powers: Playground Playground is the third book I've read by Richard Powers. I'm somewhat of a latecomer, as he has authored 13 books over the past 33 years. But I'm sure I'm one of many people who were introduced to his work through his inimitable The Overstory, a book I found deeply affecting and mind-expanding.