diff --git a/.zprofile b/.zprofile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9203f7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.zprofile
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+# this file is installed as ~/.zprofile for newly created users
+
+# prepend ~/.local/bin and ~/bin to $PATH unless it is already there
+if ! [[ "$PATH" =~ "$HOME/bin" ]]
+then
+    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
+fi
+if ! [[ "$PATH" =~ "$HOME/.local/bin:" ]]
+then
+    PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
+fi
+export PATH