Kind-of-Lost

Parkinson’s law and lifestyle inflation

Have you heard of Parkinson’s law? The principle states that “work expands in order to fill the available time.” For example, if you organize a meeting at work and set it for 1 hour (as are most meetings), the meeting will last for the whole hour, even if the objectives are complete after 30 minutes.

In productivity circles, Parkinson’s law is often used as a tool to manage time, but I believe it applies equally to managing your money. In this case, Parkinson’s Law may be rephrased to read: “Spending expands in order to consume available money.”

Lifestyle inflation explains this phenomenon. Even if you get a raise at work, you may still be left with no extra money to save. A $100 shopping trip is more likely to result in you spending $100. You are also expected to spend thousands if you have that much money to spend.

Early retirement groupthink

I keep noticing a very annoyingly condescending attitude in the FIRE (financial independence/retire early) “community” towards people outside of it, the “normal” people. I think this is the consequence of early retirement groupthink.

What am I talking about?

Some of the symptoms of this problem are: mocking people that work full time, policing FIRE people that work on gigs or part-time projects, and idolizing people that reached FIRE.

Tradelines for credit

There are two ways to improve your score: pay down the balance on your existing loan or get new tradelines. The tradelines on your credit report are how lenders recognize the different types of information about you. They use that information to do a risk assessment and decide whether or not to approve an application for financing. The more tradelines for credit you have, the better chance lenders will approve your application.

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Buy tradelines, what is a tradeline?

A tradeline is a loan that you get from the bank, with all of the same terms and conditions as a regular mortgage. You can use your credit score to qualify for these loans, as opposed to traditional mortgages which rely on an applicant’s FICO score.

The shortest superstring problem

I was introduced to the shortest superstring problem by a request I got on Fiverr. The request turned out to be a waste of time but I really enjoyed learning about it.

Problem statement

The shortest common superstring problem aims to find a string with a minimal length that contains every string in a given set.