Just chatted with a guy who has 2 kids, a loving wife, pulls in $350k before bonus, runs 6 miles every morning, owns a 4-bedroom in the West Village, just bought a boat, and is genuinely funny and kind and he still can't find a girlfriend.
Modern dating is so broken.
Scott Bessent spent 20 years at Soros betting against governments that destroyed their own economies.
Now he IS the US government's economic policy.
56-min and you'll understand every major macro decision coming out of Washington in 2026
bookmark - the most interesting Treasury Secretary interview in a decade
40 years of age is midlife in absolute terms based on actuarial tables.
Because of how we experience time, it’s more like 60-70% of life is gone.
Each year moves faster.
That’s why I keep reminding people. You’re not young. You don’t have time. Gotta getting moving.
It's funny how women on here recognize women are terrible bosses, terrible friends to vacation with and terrible customers but the idea that they are terrible to date is unfathomable
C. S. Lewis, the feminist.
“The homemaker has the ultimate career.
All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.” — C. S. Lewis
The curse of being the smart child is that you are genetically coded to be your family's unpaid crisis manager—and the world's. A massive 2024 population registry study published in The Economic Journal proved that higher general fluid intelligence directly causes increased altruism, cooperation, and prosocial behavior. Because an intelligent brain calculates long-term consequences and systemic risks faster than everyone else around it, it sees the family or societal trainwreck coming miles away. It means you are either a psychological hostage to your own foresight, or a reluctant savior trying to fix a world that doesn't even see the cliff it’s walking over.