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I was obsessed with money… then I found philosophy
Last week I was walking through town with my wife and our son in the stroller. We ran into a former high school classmate. We were both pleasantly surprised to see each other after so many years.
He looked at my wife and said: “He was always the cool guy in school.”
I laughed because it reminded me how much I cared about how I looked and what people thought of me back then.
For a sixteen-year-old, that’s probably normal. But at some point, you’ve got to stop living like that.
The thing is, most people don’t actually stop. They just trade one obsession for another.
The courage to live on your own terms
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche had been on my reading list for years. I finally got to it recently.
While I didn’t really like the book, there was one chapter that really got to me, called “Of Voluntary Death.”
This is the idea:
Live so fully and intentionally that when death comes, it feels like a completion rather than an interruption.
I love that.
Think about it. Most of us don’t live that way.
We drift, we delay, we stay on a trajectory that we know is not the right one.
And then one day it’s over…
This is why we fear death.
Nietzsche wrote:
I spent my whole career building passive income. Here’s what I got wrong.
For as long as I can remember, I wanted passive income.
Money that came in without being tied to my time or energy. Income I didn’t have to show up for. The kind of financial life where you don’t have to worry.
I think this is a universal desire for anyone who didn’t grow up rich. You see what financial stress does to a family and you make a silent promise to yourself: I’m never going to live like that.
So I built toward it for my entire adult life.
Here’s what I didn’t expect when I got there.
I still worry.
AI won’t destroy the economy. Stop stressing out.
You’ve probably felt it.
That weird, low-grade panic in the background. You sense it in your conversations with friends and co-workers.
Every week, there’s another post about “AI taking your job.” Another CEO interview. Another layoff headline. Another chart that screams: nobody is safe.
And if you’re a knowledge worker, it hits differently. Because you can actually imagine it.
But here’s what I think is really happening.
AI will not destroy the economy.
It’s here to reset the leverage that companies have.
Let me explain. First, some background.