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Beat the ‘Planning Fallacy’ to Be More Productive
Even if you’ve never heard of the planning fallacy, you’ve likely experienced it. It’s a phenomenon in which a person or team underestimates how long a task will take and what it will cost in money or resources, plus overestimates the actual benefits it will yield. If you’ve ever waited until the last minute to…
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How to Allow Pop-Ups on a Mac
Pop-ups have historically been an annoying reality of using the internet—plenty of pop-ups are disruptive at best and dangerous at worst. In some cases, though, you may need to allow pop-ups for optimal browsing. Pop-ups can be essential for actions like logging in, signing up for email lists and newsletters, and engaging with other site-specific…
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How Stamp Duty Is Holding Us Back
If just one state of Australia, New South Wales, scrapped its stamp duty on real-estate transactions, about 100,000 more Australians would move homes each year, according to our best estimates. Stamp duty is an unquestioned part of buying a home in Australia – you put your details in an online mortgage calculator, and stamp duty…