Recently, I read Dr. Sendhil Mullainathan’s and Dr. Eldar Shafir’s 2013 book titled “Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much”, which explores how limited resources — with an emphasis on poverty and finances — affects our behavior. Initially, I thought poverty contributed to “fixed” adverse consequences: that the detriments…

At the start of writing this, I have 16 blog entries in my personal Google Drive folder and another 31 in my University account — all of which I planned to share. However, when it came time to post them on my Medium page, I froze. I would close the…