The Affective Marketplace: A Ledger of Human Energy Part 3
When another person enters the picture, your energy ledger gets complicated. A look at Social Exchange Theory, the Emotional Bank Account, and emotional labor.
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The Affective Marketplace: A Ledger of Human Energy Part 2
How bounded rationality, mental accounting, scarcity, sunk cost, and ego depletion distort the way we spend our limited mental and emotional energy.
The Affective Marketplace: A Ledger of Human Energy Part 1
Human energy is finite, spendable, and governed by strict biological limits. Part 1 of The Affective Marketplace lays out the economics of how we spend ourselves.
What your mood tracker is missing: the case for energy budgeting
Daylio and Bearable track mood and symptoms, but mood is still the headline. Energy budgeting adds the missing layer: per-activity costs, budget targets, and automatic shift detection.
How to Track Your Energy Levels (A Practical Guide)
A practical guide to tracking your energy levels with a 1-10 scale, simple categories, and two weeks of data. No app required.
Your Energy Has a Balance Sheet
You track every dollar you spend but have no idea where your energy goes. Here is why treating your capacity like a financial resource changes everything.