Spending & Saving

When I originally published this post in February 2021, my thesis was pretty simple: Comparing your financial situation and decisions to the gals you wine down with on Bachelor Monday probably won’t net highly favorable results, because you’re selecting your “financial frame of reference” based on unrelated qualifications. As I revisit the idea in 2025, […]

tl;dr “We make the mistake of assuming that joy is like cash—that if we don’t “spend” it today, it can be invested (and grow larger) for the future. We assume there must be a payoff—otherwise, why delay it? Unlike with money, investing a bunch of joy for later doesn’t compound—it just guarantees you’ll enjoy less […]

A few years ago, I was going through cycle instructor training in Dallas.  I entered into the process as a certified yoga sculpt instructor already, convinced that learning how to teach this other modality would last a few easy weeks at most before I’d find myself saving a horse and riding a stationary bike, with […]

One of my favorite pastimes is arguing with people on the internet about the unaffordability of housing and how the home ownership calculus has changed over the last 15–20 years—that sure, buying a home in the 1980s was a great proposition. Today? Not as much. (This week’s podcast episode is a deep dive into the […]