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, status, and family. I give my readers an honest view into what it’s like to live inside the Manhattan bubble.
My Substack is free. If you do choose to pay, I donate all subscription revenues to The Robin Hood Foundation, a leading poverty-fighting organization.
My email: robertsdavidn@gmail.com
Examples of past essays:
On wealth and status
What It’s Like To be Rich In New York
Our Second Gilded Age Goes Supernova
On family
Every Real Couple Fights About Money And We’re No Exception
The Manhattan Nursery School Gods
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 63 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.
We have a daughter and two sons 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 grandchildren under the age of three.
Plus, 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.
