Weekly personal essays on wealth, status, and family from someone with generational wealth, writing with transparency.
Why Subscribe
I write to challenge both my thinking and therefore my readers’ thinking about the topics of wealth and status, family and culture. I give my readers an honest view into what it’s like to live inside the Manhattan bubble.
If you choose to pay, I donate all subscription revenues to The Robin Hood Foundation, a leading poverty-fighting organization.
My email: robertsdavidn@gmail.com
About Me
I had a nearly forty-year career in finance, mainly in investment management. I left finance a few years ago to pursue writing as well as to engage actively in grass-roots, high-impact philanthropy focused on fighting poverty.
I’m 64 years old and have a large, NYC based family, which means it’s hard to see ourselves ever leaving NYC. My wife Deborah also grew up in NYC. We have been married for 40 years and I write about her often. My readers have come to know her well.
Our daughter and our two sons are in their thirties. The two eldest are married so we actually have five children including our son-in-law and daughter-in-law. We have three very young grandchildren.
My email: robertsdavidn@gmail.com
Where to start:
On Wealth and Status
On Family and Culture
My Two Cents About My Inheritance
Every Real Couple Fights About Money And We’re No Exception
The Manhattan Nursery School Gods
Like every dog owner, we have the cutest and best dog in the world, our Shih-Tzu Sophie, picture below between my wife Debbie and me.





