What Tynan thinks about benchmarks

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American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.

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1. 5 Jan 2026

   Our readingBeing one short of a round-number milestone makes people fixate on completing it rather than on the milestone's actual value.

   Their wordsIt's such a pointless achievement and yet when you're at 99, all you think of is going to one more country so you can never think about the number of countries you've been to again.

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