Here’s Why Spaving Is Probably Not The Best Financial Strategy For You

Nothing brings me more joy than perfectly designed, perfectly functional, and perfectly silly gadgets. And Google Japan is the best at creating them. Google Japan has just released a new type of hardware keyboard. It calls it Gboard Double-Sided, aka the “Infinity Keyboard.” I call it the Krispy Kreme because it looks like a donut.

One size doesn’t fit all when it comes to getting more done. Here’s how to figure out how you work best. How do you account for the hours in a day? Even when my workday isn’t consumed by meetings, I often look up and feel surprised to find that it’s already afternoon and I don’t have nearly as many things crossed off of my to-do list as I planned.

Spaving, where you spend more to save more, is the latest financial trend. But this new strategy is really just an old marketing trick. Sometime in the mid 1980s, my stepfather was in need of a 15mm socket. At Sears, he discovered that it would cost about $8 to purchase the specific socket he needed.

(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and decisionmakers, click here.) Takeshi Niinami is not the kind of boss to sequester himself in the plush C-Suite. As CEO of Japanese conglomerate Suntory Holdings, Niinami prides himself on spending time meeting customers and consumers at the business’s coalface.

Inflation still looms large over consumers, though that suggest spending is holding up. Chelsea Jia Feng/BIContradictory messages about inflation and the labor market have investors on guard. Consumer prices exceeded expectations this week, even as producer prices fell flat. Here's why concerns about an impending recession are overblown. The US economy is humming along, for better or worse — or at least it appears that way.

The author in economy class, and a British Airways Airbus A380. Pete Syme/Business Insider; Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesI flew with British Airways in both the economy (coach) and premium economy cabins. The upper deck of a BA Airbus A380 means plenty of space, even in economy. I got a good deal for my premium economy ticket, and I don't think I'd pay more for the amenities.