MoneySexNerd is a cultural analysis site by Ryan Collison.
The essays published here examine how coherence breaks down and reforms under economic, sexual, and social pressure—where incentives, desire, status, and identity collide in real life.
Rather than offering self-help or ideology, MoneySexNerd focuses on diagnosis: how people and systems lose integration, how they compensate with narrative and performance, and how coherence is sometimes regained—often imperfectly—under constraint.
This work is informed by A Theory of Meaning (AToM), a philosophy of coherence developed by Ryan Collison. AToM provides the underlying lens for this analysis, but is not restated or developed here.
The canonical definition of A Theory of Meaning (AToM) is defined here.
MoneySexNerd is where theory meets pressure.