Hey pal, Here's another excerpt from FINANCE FOR THE PEOPLE.All of the parts of our lives are connected; they overlap and form how we feel about ourselves. So, the feelings you have about money aren’t something that you can compartmentalize. You carry those feelings with you into your relationships and your everyday life. How you feel about yourself impacts the choices you make. And all the choices you make create who you are, what you’re able to do and who you will allow yourself to be. I’d like to invite you to do something very hard: to learn the rules of an unfair game, attempt to play it, trust that the process will help you learn about yourself and the world around you and realize if you want to help change the system at large, you’ve got to start with first changing yourself. Because you can’t expect to change anything outside of you if you aren’t willing or able to change yourself from the inside first. I wrote FINANCE FOR PEOPLE as an invitation to change how you think about money, how you feel about money, and what you do with your money. It’s available for pre-order now, wherever you buy books, and ships on Feb 1, 2022. I hope reading it will help you change as much as writing it has for me. Your favorite finance friend,
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1. 🤓 What Is a Buy List and How It Can Help You Build a Conscious Spending Habit (HYG Original) On dopamine, the hedonic treadmill and a simple way to trick your brain out of thoughtless spending.
2. 💸 Money in the Metaverse (The New Yorker) In a virtual world full of virtual goods, finance could get weird. 3. 👨🏫 You're not rich (if you're constantly doing this) (RadReads) 4. 🤓 A bookkeeping thing - How to Determine Who Receives a 1099-MISC or a 1099-NEC (HYG Original)
5. 💡 I Went To LuLaRoe’s Top Seller Convention. Here’s What I Learned. (Buzzfeed) “The people who are drawn to LuLaRoe are in it for more than just making money. And that’s what makes MLMs so harmful.” 6. 🧮 Does Not Compute (Collaborative Fund) “The concept of economic value is easy: whatever someone wants has value, regardless of the reason (if any), and its value is higher the more it’s wanted and the less there is of it. Not utility, not discounted cash flow – just whether people want it or not, for any reason. So much of what happens in the economy is rooted in emotions, which can, at times, be nearly impossible to make sense of.” 7. 🤴 Ryan Kaji, the Boy King of YouTube (The New York Times Magazine) Kaji has been playing with toys on camera since Barack Obama was in the White House. Here are a few of the companies that are now paying him handsomely for his services: Amazon, Walmart, Nickelodeon, Skechers. Ryan also has 10 separate YouTube channels, which together make up “Ryan’s World,” a content behemoth whose branded merchandise took in more than $250 million last year. Even conservative estimates suggest that the Kaji family take exceeds $25 million annually. But we’re a full decade into being stunned by YouTuber incomes, and I’m not sure these numbers should be alarming, or even surprising. 8. 🙋♀️ Inside Colour, Hillsong's Instagram-Fueled Women's Movement (Elle) “[…] Envy evangelism and the prosperity gospel teach that people’s difficulties are generated by the individual rather than the social structure. Wealth is available to everyone, the thinking goes, so if you’re not wealthy, you’re doing something wrong. Likewise, if you’re one of the privileged, there’s no need to feel guilty about the country’s growing inequality.”
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Here’s what Booklist (paywall, boo!) has to say about FINANCE FOR THE PEOPLE. “Many people are interested in how to make money—and how to keep it. But money can be a a taboo topic, so conversations are not held in the open, putting financial health at risk. Author de Leon…provides essential tools for reconfiguring readers’ financial existence…The author’s empathy and humor throughout the book provide a digestible roadmap for the financially perplexed. A must-read for financial planning.”
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