This is The Nooner, a (very short) daily newsletter slash podcast that has its very own section within Dispatches from Inner Space.
To see the first post, which doubles as an explainer, click here.
Also a quick reminder that you can listen to the podcast version of each post wherever you listen to podcasts.
What matters most?
Relationships. Parents, children, spouses, friends, mentors.
You might have heard some variation of the quote, “Nobody will remember how late you worked except for your kids.”
But you might also know (and if you don’t, you’re about to), that the most common contributor to failed marriages is misalignment on finances.
Which, if you think about it for a second, proves my point. Anytime money starts to really influence a relationship, it’s like an infection. If you don’t lance it, dig it out, medicate it -- whatever it takes to get rid of the infection -- it will eventually kill that relationship. Or corrupt it into a nightmarish dynamic of collusive misery.
I’m not a money hater. It’s absolutely vital to maintain any economic system, which, as far as we can deduce, is non-negotiably critical for any modern society.
But it’s sort of like social bacteria, performing vital functions across a broad spectrum of dynamics, but prone to infecting areas it doesn’t belong.
And in a capitalist society, it turns out we’re all extremely vulnerable to infection.
All of this is to say, if money has crept into the connective tissue that binds together our closest relationships, we’ve got to do whatever it takes to root it out before it’s too late.
Click at least one of these or else…
…there will be no birthday celebration for you next year.
The infection that kills relationships