Begging Bowl '25: I'm Looking for Two Readers Willing to Help Me Buy a New Thrift-Store Shirt

The goal is to move incrementally toward a kind of happiness that actually makes us happy. That's the goal of my work.

I admire unvarnished honesty, which is scarce. And like everything else that's increasingly scarce, it behooves us to hoard our stash. In the unvarnished honesty box, I keep "When it becomes serious, you have to lie," (Jean-Claude Juncker, May 2011); "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" (World Economic Forum - WEF, 2018), and the evergreen classic, …