5/15/2023 0 Comments Blackhole 2ch![]() ![]() ![]() I have a family member whom I love dearly, but they post way too many links to political stories with no additional comment or manipulative memes (“I bet this won’t get one like or share” □) and I just won’t tolerate those in my feed anymore.Īnd when you do all that, you know what happens? It’s no longer possible to doom scroll your news feed. Even for people I like, sometimes they get a bit… spammy with their postings. menu in the upper-right of one of their posts), or even unfriended a few where I felt like-even if we had had a closer connection at one point-we don't have what I would consider a friendship at this moment.įinally, I started making ample use of the “Hide post” option.I unfollowed (but remained friends) for many folks in the long tail of my friends list (available in the I also became be more selective with who I allow in my feed. menu at the far right side of the header when viewing a group.Next, I cleaned out left most groups I had joined, either turning off notifications, or leaving the group altogether. Here’s the page where you can do the same: This means unfollowing nearly every non-friend organization, artist, musician, influencer, and brand I had mindlessly “liked” over the years. So I focused my efforts on optimizing my experience for that, and that alone. But on further consideration, I realized that there was still value in it for keeping in touch with some friends and acquaintances in my life. [The chart below really should cap out at 0, since you would simply take the standard deduction each year at any given level below $6.,200.) And as you increase above it, the percentage gain falls off asymptotically.Ī month ago I nearly quit Facebook altogether. Of course once you hit ½ the standard deduction ($6,200), the gains disappear. But you still get benefits if you are on either side of that number. The optimal value-where you receive the largest percentage increase in deduction-is at the standard donation (again, $12,400). This works best with a donor-advised fund, but it could also work without if you want to donate in early Jan one year and then late December the same year, which to your charities will still look like you are donating yearly. But if you (or your donors) do fall into this category, there is a trick to maximizing the tax deduction-lumping 2 years worth of donations every other year, and then taking the standard deduction on alternate years. Few people who don’t have a mortgage will come close to reaching that value. The standard deduction for US federal taxes is now a staggering $12,400. Unless you are sending a rover to Mars where there is literally no opportunity to "fix it in post-", I suggest you do a a nominal amount of research and analysis, then make a decision and move onto other things in your life. Switching costs are often lower than you think, and failing fast is actually a great outcome. My experience shows that-especially for people who lean heavily on logic and rationality like myself □-we tend to overweight "getting it right" at the expense of making a decision and moving on. You have to decide if the opportunity cost to delve in is worth the investment to increase the odds of making the better choice. But here's the thing: there are costs to doing this work. It requires more research or more analysis. That's a great reason to go with the "loser"). In the second, choose the one that in your gut you like better (or use the "flip a coin" trick, and notice if you have any resistance to the "winner". In the first case, choose the better one. Here's a framework I use for A or B decisions. ![]()
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