Letters

Life’s Trade The moment I’ve been waiting for since January is approaching. Maybe even since last autumn, when I started assembling this whole mechanism. Now it’s coming together. Not perfectly — nothing in life comes together perfectly — but clearly enough that I want to talk about it openly. This letter is about one number, … Read more

Tactics Sold as Strategies In 2007 I was twenty-three. I took out a loan, bought an apartment – and six months later I was counting cents at the grocery store. I believed what everyone believed: a long horizon smooths everything out. It did – but only after six years. And those six years I paid … Read more