Yvon Choinard gave it all away. Mark Cuban built a business to curb greed. Dario Amodei is building ethics into the code itself. Three generations, three radically different ideas about what wealth is for. What's changing now — and which paradigm resonates with you?
Capitalism is arguably the most powerful force on the planet. It may also be killing us. Five archetypes for how we relate to that paradox — and an invitation to locate yourself on the spectrum.
The digital economy and the financial economy have merged into a flywheel of unimaginable size and speed, spinning on energy and light in the collective human psyche. If you think we're going to turn it off, you've deceived yourself. The evolutionary move is something else entirely.
Four bad decisions over four hours. Eighteen miles on skis over twenty-eight hours. An overnight bivouac in the West Elk Wilderness during a snowstorm. A backcountry survival story — and a hard education in the one lesson every wilderness traveler eventually learns.
Morpheus offers Neo a choice: red pill or blue pill. Most of us grabbed the red pill without hesitation. But the film makes an unforgivable error — the same binary thinking that got us here in the first place. What if you take both pills, and walk a Middle Way through the complexities of modern finance?
Most people think of capital as money. But financial capital is only one of five forms — and it sits at the bottom of the stack. A four-minute riff from a backcountry ski day on what wealth actually looks like when you expand your lungs to expand the frame.
Wealth creates extraordinary possibility and extraordinary complication — often in the same decision. A wide-ranging conversation with Robert MacNaughton on Elon Musk, Charles Eisenstein, The Lorax, and whether growth itself is the problem.
Most people's relationship with money was inherited, not chosen. A conversation with Jayne Warrilow of Sacred Changemakers on what happens when spiritual practice and wealth advising occupy the same room.
A candid conversation with Paul Zelizer on building a practice at the intersection of purpose and finance — including the parts that don't work, the failures that teach, and what "whole wealth" actually means on a Tuesday morning.

You've built the plan — the estate structure, the global custody, the balanced asset allocation. So why are you still uncomfortable at night? Headlines whipsaw even the most centered souls. Alan Watts identified the trap: the reach for security itself creates the anxiety. What opens up when you stop grasping?