Healthcare, capitalism, prisons, education. I didn't set out to find a common thread. But one keeps showing up. These systems disconnect us from the things that make us whole.

When I left my job at 29 to start a company, the fear that almost kept me from making the leap wasn't failure. It was losing my health insurance. How much creativity and love never enters the world because of a fear-based system?

The US spends roughly twice as much per person on healthcare as other wealthy nations. We rank dead last in outcomes. What does a system built on fear actually produce?

I had a conversation with a friend who is an emergency room doctor. She told me about a system designed to heal people that is actually built on fear. Fear of lawsuits. Fear of missing something.

John Biewen is the host of Scene on Radio, one of the most important podcast series I've encountered. Sitting across a campfire from him was surreal. He didn't let me stay comfortable.

After weeks of researching money and capitalism, I needed to talk with someone who thinks about money for a living but doesn't think about it the way most people do.

I spent weeks researching the history of money. What I found was a story about how a tool we invented to serve human connection became a system that controls human behavior.

This is the deep dive companion to my piece asking "What is Money?" It traces 5,000 years of monetary history from Mesopotamian clay tablets to modern fiat currency, with 52 citations.

Have you ever thought about what it takes to stay connected to the people closest to you? I hadn't. Not until I started exchanging messages with someone behind bars.

I recently read 5 Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloom. What caught me wasn't the framework. It was what it revealed about my own patterns. Specifically, my relationship with time wealth and the word yes.

I thought I understood capitalism. After all, I'm an entrepreneur with an MBA in Finance. Turns out, it's complicated. Very complicated. My trail notes from Scene on Radio's Capitalism series.

We treat productivity like it’s always a good thing. But what’s underneath the output? Fear-based productivity is everywhere. I got curious about what happens when it runs on something else entirely.