Follow the Money

Why It's Worth the Effort

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People who make good decisions rely on good frameworks. The doctor doesn’t diagnose randomly, symptoms are matched to a rubric. The framework behind these posts is this—follow the money.  In a later post, I’ll share the frameworks behind the podcasts.

We are all incarcerated in a money cage. Money exerts power on our lives whether we acknowledge it or not. Openly talking about money can make us feel vulnerable. At the same time, money talk can sometimes be terribly boring. It’s a paradox.

Yet, learning how to follow the money, to see how the cage is engineered, is powerful. It also deepens other perspectives, like psychology and history. I want to teach you how to read the newspaper backward. What do I mean?