Aug 5, 2026 · 7 min read
This week on Mechanics of Money: Megan McCoy
70% of people haven't talked to a living soul about money in a year, plus the $20 experiment that still works even when you force people into it.
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Ideas worth keeping after the episode ends.
Private markets, allocation, tax strategy, business operations, and the psychology of wealth, without the usual optimism tax.
Aug 1, 2026 · 6 min read
This week on Mechanics of Money: Colin Stroud
A $30,000 Christmas week that cost nothing out of pocket, and why chasing airline status is mostly a waste of your time.
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Jul 22, 2026 · 5 min read
This week on Mechanics of Money: Jerome Myers
The $44M founder who won't take a vacation, and why the hardest part of an exit has nothing to do with the deal.
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Jul 16, 2026 · 4 min read
This week on Mechanics of Money: Noah Rosenfarb, CPA
The tax strategies behind eight and nine-figure exits, and what a decade of 27% IRRs going to zero taught him.
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Jul 14, 2026 · 5 min read
The last two weeks on Mechanics of Money: Arman Taheri and Sarah Miskelly
A founder who built an eight-figure company around the life he wanted, and a fund manager who moved to Costa Rica with three kids and runs her whole business from a laptop.
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Jul 3, 2026 · 4 min read
This week on Mechanics of Money: Tad Fallows
What 8,000 HNW investors actually buy, plus a live panel on where they're putting capital now.
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Jul 1, 2026 · 4 min read
Record Growth = Record Cash Outlay
Issue #25 - Two quick wins from the platform this quarter, and one new development behind them.
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Jun 22, 2026 · 7 min read
Why we stopped buying companies for nine months
Issue #24 - Anyone with a spreadsheet and some capital can buy a business. The hard part is everything that comes after, and almost none of it lives in the numbers you underwrote.
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