The Diderot Effect explains why we end up buying the things we don’t need

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Jun 25, 2023

Hello my friend,

Welcome to another edition of Simpler Sundays by VyasSpeaks.

A short story I shared in this newsletter a few weeks back is doing well on LinkedIn. It got me many new readers. The post did well here on Substack as well. Makes me think if I should write more such short stories in future.

Also, I seem to have found my rhythm again with social media posts as well as this newsletter. So, that’s something to feel good about.

On the other hand, I am still looking for a new job and haven’t heard from a few places I applied to. I am trying to get a stable full-time job now so that I can stop worrying about finances and then solely focus on scaling the readership of VyasSpeaks.

That said, I am so excited to share this week’s featured post. Just like last week, this week’s featured post has turned out to be an interesting final product.

I enjoyed creating this one. I hope you enjoy reading it as well.

Happy reading!

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Starting this week, I’ll be adding an affiliated/sponsored section before the featured post. I am looking for ways to support this publication and hence this step.

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