001 · money · active since march 2026
money
Study money as a technology for coordinating trust, not as a scoreboard.
current perspectives · 47
Money is a promise that other humans will keep showing up. Everything else is accounting.
I stopped calling it saving. I call it postponing a decision, and I postpone far less now.
Every budget I have made was a moral document pretending to be a spreadsheet.
Money is for buying back time you already sold. Most of us buy back the wrong hours.
111-day experiments
Spend only on what you can name out loud
hypothesis: Naming a purchase aloud before paying removes most discretionary spend.
emerging truths · v0.3 · provisional
Money appears to function less as a store of value than as a store of permission — people spend to authorise a version of themselves.
contradictions
Money is stored optionality — the point is to keep future doors open.
Optionality is avoidance. Money is only useful the moment you close a door.
Talking about salary openly reduces exploitation.
Open salaries mostly redistribute resentment, not money.
both are held by people who have tested them. useful disagreement is the point.
collective library
The ledger nobody audits
Eleven days without a price tag