On Tuesday, September 8, 2026, an Anthropic researcher named Jacob Coxon resigned after six weeks over safety concerns and wrote about why. He said the leading labs are “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence” and gambling with everybody’s lives. The people building AI, he wrote, earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of
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Buying too much car is one of the most common and most expensive personal finance mistakes in America. It is also one of the least dramatic, which is why it keeps happening. Nobody blows up their finances in a single afternoon at a dealership. They just sign something with a comfortable monthly payment, drive off
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I’m reading a great little book called The Practice Of Not Reacting: Zen Wisdom For A Happy Life by Ryushun Kusanagi. The publisher is Portfolio Penguin, the same publisher for my 2027 book, Your Children Will Be OK. One of the core concepts is that all of us want to be recognized for our contributions. At work, at
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After publishing The Untold Burden Of Being Your Family’s Financial Provider, I got this comment from a reader named Brian: “I can identify with this post as I am the family CFO / CIO. I think you are WAY overcomplicating this. What is wrong with merely investing in VTI / VXUS and chill? My returns have
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Something funny happened after I spent $3,000 fixing up my 2015 Range Rover Sport. A 2026 Range Rover Sport in the same black on black with only 905 miles became available. It was the perfect setup, because buying a brand new car is a serious waste of money. When you’re the family’s financial provider, your
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According to an Indeed Hiring Lab analysis, women now hold more payroll jobs than men in America. It’s only the third time this has ever happened. The first two times, during the Great Recession and just before COVID, the gap snapped back once construction and manufacturing started hiring again. This time looks different. Between February
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Dear Financial Samurai, When Jeff Dean left Google after 27 years to start his own company, Alphabet’s market cap dropped by roughly $190 billion in a single session. That is the most impact I’ve ever seen one individual have on a company. Dean was Google’s chief scientist and its 30th employee back in 1999. So
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This week’s newsletter is sponsored by ProjectionLab, a fantastic DIY retirement planning tool that helps you build more wealth and confidence in your future. Dear Financial Samurai, I’m back from Honolulu with mixed emotions. On the one hand, it’s nice to no longer be sticky and sweaty, given a tropical storm was brewing and the
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There are layers to freedom, and most of us only ever peel back two. The first layer is breaking free from your parents. Some people manage it the summer after high school. Others are still depending on dad to pay their new credit card charges at 37. The second layer is breaking free from work.
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One of my biggest fears as a parent is raising kids who can’t launch into adulthood on their own. My hope is that by 26, three years after college to find their footing, they can support themselves without my money. If they can’t, I’m afraid I’ll feel like I failed them as a father. So
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