The Three Genres of Money Problem

[This is a republication of a column I’m writing once a week or so on Medium about personal development. It’s firewalled for non-Medium-members, but you get it here as part of your subscription to my Substack.]

Lessons gleaned from writing an advice column about money

People don’t talk about money enough. And I don’t mean this in the crass sense that they don’t brag about material things, but in the sense that money affects everyone and yet discussing it is taboo. The only people who can really afford (in both senses) to avoid the topic at all are usually so wealthy that it causes very few problems for them.