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Weekly personal essays on wealth, status, and family from someone with generational wealth, writing with transparency.
Aug 11, 2023
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Sex, Status, and Self-Esteem In Our Forties
Debbie and I watched The Invite this week. Seth Rogan and Olivia Wilde star in the movie as a forty-something couple, miserable with themselves and each…
18 hrs ago
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Rich Boy Refuge From Reality
I had some bad news a few weeks ago.
Aug 15
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Raise My Taxes Not From Spite But From Prudence
My taxes should go up but not because wealth is immoral and not because most wealthy people are greedy grifters. I want taxes to go up because when I…
Aug 8
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Going Broke Earning Five Million Dollars A Year
My 89-year-old father has been in the hospital all week so that’s where my attention has been.
Aug 1
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The Dangerous Complacency of the Wealthy
The rhetoric against the wealthy has grown more harsh, more bitter, more belligerent. Understandably.
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Novels We Loved In The First Half Of 2026
While I appreciate a good movie or show, few things make life better than falling in love with the world of a novel, the sort of book that while you’re…
Jul 18
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High Flying Adored
The marriage of Taylor Swift poses a question of whether it’s possible to remain at the peak of any endeavor and still have a balanced life.
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Self-Evident Truths Get Smacked Down By Reality
Pretending that we are all created equal leads the privileged to narcissism and the non-privileged to despair. It divides us into winners and losers, as…
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