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m463 on March 29, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket

Took me into middle age to do this.

Now I don't feel guilty about:

- books I don't finish

- movies or tv series I don't finish

- projects I don't make into a company

and it doesn't matter if I bought into it hard. If I bought the "tv series complete collection", or whatever:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost#Fallacy_effect

breakfastbar on March 31, 2023 [–]

Hmmm... The first two are for pleasure, whereas the third one is not. Making a company is always going to be hard.

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