The American Dream is one of those rare myths that shapes itself to the moment. Anyone can make it here evolved to “owning your own home” and even stretched to sending all of our children to college. I’m just not so sure it can expand to fit the world of perpetual voyeurism of the networked […]
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America is grossly class segregated in a way that I don’t think Europeans fully grasp but all Americans intuit even if they don’t understand all of its rules. Every time I find myself in Europe I learn something new about socialism and its trade offs. Sure we talk a big game about the middle class […]
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Day 1345 and Class Consciousness
I have written about classism, class anxiety, and class status as part of my interest in how we form group identities. Searching just for the world “class” turns up 504 mentions on this blog. That seems like a lot but I’d argue that no other identity marker (even race & gender) determines quite so much […]
Fashion editor and venture capitalist are surprisingly similar skill sets. How picking the hot new hand bag helped me land an investment in a nuclear reactor company.
The volume of communication we receive digitally has risen to deafening levels. I’m shocked we aren’t all in a civilizational stupor muttering “mawp” like the cartoon secret agent Archer. As we attempt to balance the barotrauma of the increasing volume of dings, pings, tings and Slack bings trying to reorient our attention towards them, the […]
It’s hard to say that there is a best part of living in Montana. If you like mountains, seasons and being outdoors it is hard to beat. One thing I particularly enjoy is how often people will come to our state either as tourists or for retreats with their companies and coworkers. Alex and I […]
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Day 1769 and Not So Nice on Election Day
I don’t know what it is about election day in America, but it has ceased to be a joyful, exciting day for me. I wonder about the lost version of me who ever felt positively about elections. Now it’s a day of dread and worry. And not even having day 69 in the post’s title […]
And what feels like a lifetime ago, when Alex and I were searching for the perfect property on which to have our little homestead experiment, we were on our second scouting trip in the Gallatin County area when an almost impossibly perfect property went on the market. I was particularly adamant about finding something that […]
Ever wish you could call the next big trend. That’s the Thursday Styles Problem: knowing what’s coming, & nailing when. My testosterone experiment just made the front page… right as the wave broke.
Today was a pretty big news day. It was a FOMC meeting with a cut, Jerome Powell gave some forward guidance that a cut in December is not guaranteed (cue market upset), and NVIDIA became worth $5 trillion. This is apparently 16% of our GDP and without investment in artificial intelligence related build-out, our economy […]