Hey friend,I’ve been thinking a lot about this quote from Emmy Rossum when she was a guest on this episode of the Armchair Expert podcast: “I don’t think there’s ever an amount of money that could ever make me feel safe. You just have to keep yourself afraid so you don’t get comfortable. So you make a number, and then you get there, and then you’re like, so that must not have been what safety is?” Money alone isn’t safety. Money can help you afford the things to make you feel safe and secure, like housing, insurance, and therapy. Which can ease the anxieties naturally baked into the human experience. In a universe of uncertainty, money can be a world of comfort. But it isn’t safety. I’ve realized that for so long, I’ve conflated the two. As of late, I’m actively working on trying to unlink these two things. And I’m curious about how I’m going to feel and who I will become once I’m on the other side. What ideas do you hold about money and safety? Don’t be shy, hit reply. Your friend,
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1. 🎓 How to Prepare to Start Paying Your Student Loans Again (HYG Original) Here’s everything you need to know about student loan repayment after Covid relief and how to prepare for student loan payments to start back up again in 2023. 2. 🤐 Quiet Quitting Is a Fake Trend. Why Does It Feel Real? (The Atlantic) What people are now calling “quiet quitting” was, in previous decades, simply known as “having a job.” 3. 📳 What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts? (Read Max) Digging into the world of "pig-butchering" scams 4. 🛣 The Road Ahead (New York Times) The owner of a used car dealership tries to predict the future of used cars. 5. 🤓 A bookkeeping thing - Understanding Cash-Basis Accounting vs. Accrual-Basis Accounting (HYG Original) 6. 🤪 The Death Cheaters
(Toronto Life) “The members of Longevity House are united by two things: a willingness to hand over $100,000 and a burning desire to live forever. Inside the weird world of cryotherapy, biocharging and fecal transplants."7. 🎶 Songwriters Protest Spotify in LA: ‘I Just Want to Be Able to Pay My Bills’ (Billboard) “The #WeWroteThat protest comes down to the fight for better pay for working creatives overall. ‘I just want to be able to pay my bills. I just want to afford basic expenses. We songwriters struggle every day. I’ve written for some of the biggest artists in the world, like Ariana [Grande] and Beyoncé, and it’s still hard.’”
8. 😣 The Age of Algorithmic Anxiety (New Yorker) “‘Just as the fear of heights is not about heights, algorithmic anxiety is not simply about algorithms.’ Algorithms would not have the power they have without the floods of data that we voluntarily produce on sites that exploit our identities and preferences for profit. When an ad for bras or mattresses follows us around the Internet, the culprit is not just the recommendation algorithm but the entire business model of ad-based social media that billions of people participate in every day. When we talk about ‘the algorithm,’ we might be conflating recommender systems with online surveillance, monopolization, and the digital platforms’ takeover of all of our leisure time—in other words, with the entire extractive technology industry of the twenty-first century.”
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