Free the Wage Slave
Money news for people building an exit.
Dr. Hanne Lauridsen
Avoidance has a bill. This desk prints it.
About Dr. Hanne Lauridsen
Hanne is a behavioural scientist who spent nine years in academic research on financial decision-making before moving into practice. She writes here rather than teaching because, in her words, the people who most need the findings are not enrolled anywhere.
She covers the behaviour around money rather than the money: why a savings rate stalls the month after a goal is met, why the same person can hold a spreadsheet and an unopened envelope, and what the delay costs in figures rather than in feelings.
She is careful about the boundary of her own beat. Money scripts are a real published framework and she attributes them; prevalence percentages for them are not verifiable and she refuses to invent any. Where a reader's situation stops being a mindset problem, her pieces name actual services rather than offering encouragement.
She keeps bees on an allotment on the edge of the city, which she says is the only hobby she has that punishes impatience more reliably than investing does.
Areas of expertise
- Behavioural finance
- Financial anxiety and avoidance
- Money scripts (Klontz framework)
- Goal-setting and post-goal collapse
- The cost of delay
- Duty of care in money writing
How Hanne works
She converts a behavioural claim into a number this site can compute, or she leaves the number out. The cost of avoidance on this site is a compounding calculation, not an estimate of how bad it feels.
She will not cite a prevalence statistic she cannot trace to a primary source, and says so in the piece when one is missing rather than reaching for a rounder figure.
The record
years covering this beat
pieces filed on this site
words published here
pieces built on a computed table
Counted from what is published on this site, not from anywhere else. There are no follower or subscriber figures on this page: they are not public, and an audience number is not a competence signal.
Credentials
- PhD Behavioural Science, University of Minnesota
- Nine years in academic research on financial decision-making
- Member, Association for Psychological Science
Recent work
How many months a small emergency fund actually buys
Does a raise fix a money mindset?
Avoiding your finances costs up to 43% of your future balance
Standards and contact
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