The Inner Monologue

Let’s face it—keeping up with the latest everything is a scam. Tech companies, fashion brands, and car manufacturers want you to believe that you’ll wither into irrelevance if you don’t buy the newest shiny thing the second it drops. But guess what? You can save a fortune by living in the past like a frugal…

Every autumn in America, a great ritual unfolds. From Maine to Malibu, homeowners drag out the rakes, dethatchers, fertilizers, and spreaders in preparation for what they call “lawn care season.” They aerate, overseed, fertilize, and spray as if engaged in sacred ceremony — a ceremony devoted to a single deity: grass. They fight nature for…

As we move deeper into the 21st century, we are entering an era where the information ecosystem has inverted. Once, grassroots wisdom — the advice of neighbors, friends, and relatives — was the most trustworthy knowledge available. It came from lived experience, passed through networks of people who did things: mechanics who fixed engines, farmers…

There’s an old quote from the movie Highlander: “There can be only one.” It’s meant as an epic line about immortals battling for supremacy, but it might as well describe the modern American political psyche. In a country that structurally enforces a two-party system, political identity has ceased to be a matter of preference or…

Alan Kay once quipped that “Technology is anything that was invented after you were born; everything else is just stuff.”It’s one of those deceptively simple ideas that everyone nods at without really unpacking. Most people interpret it as a commentary on generational perception—the old see new inventions as strange, while the young see them as…

Let’s face it—the weather has been extra lately. Hurricanes with personal vendettas, wildfires that seem almost sentient, floods that mock our infrastructure like a bad Yelp review. Sure, scientists keep saying it’s climate change (and, okay, fine, it probably is), but have we considered the other obvious explanation? Maybe we’ve angered the old gods. Think…

There’s a quiet moment that defines how capable a person becomes. Something breaks — the faucet leaks, the car won’t start, the Wi-Fi is down — and the first instinct is to reach for the phone. Call the expert. Call Dad. Call the friend who “knows about this stuff.” But that’s the moment where capability…

Every generation has its apocalypse. Today it’s artificial intelligence — the all-knowing machine poised to outthink us, outwork us, and perhaps, as some dread, outlive us. The fear feels fresh and existential, but it’s merely the latest chapter in a very old story. From the first spark of fire to the first line of code,…

Somewhere in your forties, if you’ve lived with even a hint of foresight, a quiet reckoning begins. It’s not about promotions or pay raises anymore. It’s about math. The kind that doesn’t lie. The kind that sits on a spreadsheet in the quiet hours of the evening and tells you, without emotion or excuse, when…