-
The Weight of the Prefix
•
My LinkedIn headline currently reads: Technical Product Leader | Payments & Fintech | ex-Nium · ex-AmEx. I haven’t decided how long I’ll keep it that way. Some days it feels like useful context. Other days it feels like I’m leaning on something I should have moved past. I haven’t fully…
-
When AI Starts Paying On Your Behalf
•
Somewhere in the near future, and the leading edge of that future is already visible today, you will tell an AI to book you a flight, and the AI will book the flight. Not research flights and show you options. Not open a browser tab and wait for you to…
-
The Infrastructure Shift Hiding in Plain Sight
•
Start with a simple question. When a company in California pays a software vendor in Bangalore, what actually happens between the moment someone clicks send and the moment the vendor’s bank account shows a number? The answer, if you have spent any time in the payments industry, is that a…
-
What Comparison Does To Us
•
There is a particular quality of unhappiness that is generated not by anything that has actually happened to you but by looking at what is happening to someone else. It is a familiar feeling. You are doing reasonably well, by most available measures. And then you encounter evidence of someone…
-
The Unpolished Ones
•
There is something happening quietly on the internet right now, and it does not have a name yet, which is probably why it has not been ruined yet. It shows up in small moments. A person posts a painting they did over the weekend. The proportions are slightly off. The…
-
Slow Reading In A Fast World
•
There is a specific kind of pleasure that arrives about thirty pages into a book you have decided to take seriously. The initial friction is gone. The writer’s voice has become familiar. The particular logic of this particular work has started to settle into something you can inhabit rather than…
-
What The Body Already Knows
•
The body is almost always the last thing we listen to, even though it speaks first. Before the mind has fully registered that something is wrong, the body usually already knows. There is a tightness somewhere. A flatness in the energy that does not match the calendar or the caffeine…
-
The Card Fee That Nobody Talks About
•
Every time you tap your card at a store, a small fee moves in the background. You do not see it. The cashier does not mention it. The receipt does not show it. But the merchant who sold you your coffee, your groceries, your shoes, paid it. In the United…