Also also... do you really need to go to the expensive school? At this point, I wouldn’t trade my liberal arts college experience for anything. But if someone had explained to me that I would actually be paying off my student loans for the better portion of my adult life, I would have thought a little harder about…

It would have been awfully nice if someone had explained anything about my credit score to me. I didn’t fully understand its importance or how it worked at all until I was about 28, by which point I had completely tanked my score and was very much in debt. I’m now 32 and s-l-o-w-l-y working my way back up, but boy...…

Most people don’t try to fix a problem until it needs to be fixed. You have to know to ask the question before you can search for the answer.

I agree 1000%. However, it took new *parents* to instill the value of seat belts and not smoking to their children. Some children figured it out on their own, but many didn’t or at least they didn’t before they had instilled the bad habits.

Regarding parents - If your parents instill ignorance about money at all or how budgeting works, how might one realize those are skills they need to acquire? I understand plenty of people, like you, glean this information from other sources, but not everyone is that aware. They’ve grown up in families where things are…

It sounds like it should be that easy, but it isn’t. The amount of money people make is not always consistent. I work in an industry of freelancers who always know about how much they make regularly, but it can fluctuate drastically from month to month. In that case, it’s tough to even know how much you’re making,…

Jesus. Can’t an organization decide what they will and won’t support? Haven’t *actual newspapers* been endorsing political candidates for decades? How is this in any way different? It seems like your argument is really, “No more gadget news here, just politics.” In which case, I’ll say again, an organization is free…

I really appreciate your articles and comments. Thank you for being awesome.

As I understand, their staffers aren’t only being paid to answer phone calls from constituents. They have other work to do, too. So, if you’re tying up their time with phone calls about the Muslim ban, and they can’t get anything else done, your representative will hear about it and will be more likely to get things…

It’s certainly possible, but, theoretically, you’re doing it over the toilet, so it’s not such a disaster.

SAME!

I do this ALL THE TIME with Chipotle burritos. “I’ll only eat half and I’ll save the other half for later!” *cut to 70% of the burrito later* “Oh no! I blew right past that halfway point. I’m never going to eat this last little bit later...might as well stuff it in my face because I am sure as hell not letting the…

Plenty of people have a tough time understanding the difference between feeling “not hungry” and feeling “full”. It’s not that a person *can’t* stop themselves (although, that is sometimes the case and you’re right, those people need some help working that out), it’s that they just don’t think about it because there’s…

This has clearly never been an issue for you.

WHAT. This is the greatest thing to have ever happened to me.

I do this. Our parents live just a couple hours away, so we’re often heading out for a weekend visit. I have a duffel bag with a smaller bags for toiletry and makeup, a weekend’s worth of undies and socks. All I have to do is pack the clothes. My toiletry bag even has an old prescription bottle where I count out the…

Patrick, I just want to thank you for your continued dedication to keeping us all up to date on the Pokémon Go news. I’d still just be a sad little n00b, evolving every Pidgey I found, if it weren’t for you. <3

For some reason the line “maybe you overestimated your willpower” really stood out to me. I mean, the rest was great, too, but this one. Boy, this is the sticking point, isn’t it? It’s one thing understand about making mindful decisions or being resourceful, etc, but once you decide to do those things, you have to…

But I don’t want that all the time - when I silence my phone going to a movie, I don’t want it buzzing in my purse.

Thank you for writing this.