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Pineapple Suite State of Mind
This essay contains copious White Lotus season 3 spoilers. If you’re not caught up, please stop whatever else you’re doing and go spend the next eigh…
We Can Fix It. But Do We Want To?
International Women’s Day nearly escaped my awareness this year. As it turns out, I wasn’t the only one not in the spirit: About a week before, the “…
What Will Make Economic Boycotts Work Again?
There are a few notable examples of overlap between traditional personal finance advice and economic justice movements. Take, for example, last Frida…
The Large American Family Is Becoming a Luxury Good
A cherished milestone of modern American adulthood is rewatching the 1990 classic Home Alone through Zillow-pilled eyes for the first time, witnessin…
Breaking: Richest Man on Earth Tries to Rewrite Reality
The explosion of financial updates out of Washington in the past week has been overwhelming, the “breaking news” equivalent of projectile vomit. (The…
Incentives are Not Instructions
In 2021, I earned more in a month than I had earned in all of 2018. I was 26. Given all the buzz about oligarchy this year, I’ve been reflecting…
What Do the Wall Street Journal Commenters Want?
Originally, this essay was supposed to be about the futility of extreme New Year’s resolutions. There were going to be jokes about announcing your in…
ISO: Patina
For the last four years, we’ve spent Thanksgiving with a few of my husband’s brothers and their families in a Colorado ski town (though the trip is f…
On Time
The “Passion Planner” was first sucked into the gravitational force field of my striving at an internship in 2016, thanks to a young colleague who re…
Redefining the Terms
A few weeks ago, I watched The Substance through my hands. During particularly bloody scenes, I would study Thomas’s face as he grimaced, attempting …
