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eru on Sept 10, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Positive Cashflow Matters

In some situations, curtailing your options can be good. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precommitment

pontifier on Sept 10, 2019 [–]

Interesting. I can see how that could be effective due to our natural tendancy to over value immediate utility.

It makes me wonder what sort of evolutionary advantage that sort of willpower breakdown provides... If any.

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