Reflections

Curiosity without boundaries.

In the spirit of the Renaissance ideal, these writings span multiple disciplines across philosophy, economics, societal challenges and more. With each piece I seek to explore ideas that resist simple conclusions, because the most important questions rarely have easy answers

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Demystifying Money: How It’s Created and Controlled

Money should, in theory, be a relatively easy thing to understand. We interact with it every day after all. Unfortunately, it’s not quite as simple as just ‘the money in your account’. That being said, just because something isn’t straightforward doesn’t mean we should seek to make it harder than it needs to be.

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