Modern Wisdom · 2026-02-05 · 120 min · 25,864 words

Mastering the Art of Spending Money - Morgan Housel - #1055

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You are my favorite writer. Thank you. You have the most insights per word of anybody that's writing stuff at the moment. Well, thanks. That means a lot to me.

Thank you. You could have chosen to write about anything. Why choose to write about spending money? Well, I'll I'll take it back to the start of my career, which was like a lot of young men, particularly in the in the mid-2000s, uh, the ultimate goal before tech really existed, the ultimate goal was be an investment banker on Wall Street. And it's hard to remember that era because now if you're a young person at Stanford or whatever, your goal is like go work at Google, go work at at OpenAI.

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