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Grappling with vastness

"Choosing smaller problems allows me to grapple with things that are my size, and that I know I can handle, but as I expand the scope, I have to grapple with a world of possibilities that is vastly larger than me, and could easily crush me as and when it fights back, and honestly, yeah, this scares me."

Would You Trade Places With Someone Else?

"Therefore, you now have the solution to comparison envy: ask yourself if you’d trade your life for theirs."

Inflation – Should We Be Worried?

"The magic of economics is that in the long run, prices for almost anything compete themselves all the way down to the point where it is barely profitable to make a product. And this is why over time, life keeps getting cheaper and our standard of living keeps rising. Despite the fact that inflation keeps happening in the background."