Weekend Reading

I Heard You Singing | On Quality | Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise | Why You’ll Never Solve All Your Money Problems | The CAPE That Cried Wolf: Has the Standard Market-Valuation Metric Broken Down?

Are Our Shared Anxieties Making Us More Combative in Politics? | Better Than Free | Quiet, My Exoself | Time Is The New Rich | The Private Equity Consensus Trade

The Elixir of the Payroll-Tax Cap and Other Social Security Myths | Escape Velocity: The Real Reason We Save for Retirement | America at 50, 100, 150, 200, and 250 | An OpenAI Model Escaped Its Sandbox and Hacked Hugging Face | A Hierarchy Of The Value A Financial Advisor Provides

Who is America’s Homer? | On the Difference Between Rest and Idleness | Why Are Americans So Anxious? | Is the Vibecession Real, or is the Survey Broken? | When and How Asset Allocation Matters

Nobody Wants To Earn Their S*** | The Uncomfortable Reason You Keep Self-Sabotaging | SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic: The S&P 500 Inclusion Question | When To Fire Youself as a DIY Investor

Why Has the US Been So Successful? | Half of America Cannot Afford to Live, and Other Wrong Numbers | 12 Breathtaking Natural Wonders in the US You Need to See in Your Lifetime | Elon Musk and the Rise of Cult Capitalism

Grievance Poisoning in the First Degree | DO THE MATH | Redefining Generational Wealth | The ‘Vibecession’ Is Over. The ‘Permacession’ Is Here | The carried interest taxation debate just changed

The Great Depopulation | The Mathematical Reason Most People Never “Make It” | Get Inspired to Protect Women’s Right to Vote | The Week in Charts (5/7/26) | What Are We Optimizing For? | How to Build a Portfolio You Don’t Have to Babysit

Artist perfectly explains Dad and daughter relationships in 10 paintings | Trump Just Pardoned Himsellf and His Family Forever | Sorry, Not Sorry | First ASI indicators achieved | What Are We Optimizing For? | How to Build a Portfolio You Don’t Have to Babysit