Something broke. Not the economy. Not democracy. Not the climate. Those have been breaking for years and we've learned to doom-scroll past them.

Something weirder. The scripts broke.

Your parents' playbook for "how to be an adult" was designed for a world where careers lasted 40 years, relationships followed a predictable escalator, and your kinks stayed in the closet where they belonged. That world is gone. The map is wrong. And 2026 is the year nobody can pretend otherwise.

This isn't a manifesto. It's a survival guide.

MoneySexNerd. Because nobody else is going to explain this shit.

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Your brain runs software optimized for a world that no longer exists. This series explores twelve cognitive biases—from Gambler's Fallacy to Dunning-Kruger—as context-dependent tools, not irrational flaws.
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Neuropolarity: Navigating the AI Phase Transition
A 10-part series on surviving and thriving when the ground shifts. Frameworks for holding coherence no matter what happens.
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