The original batch. Cultural hot takes, system maps, and pattern recognition from before the rebrand.

These are the first MoneySexNerd essays—written when the voice was still finding itself and the substrate hadn’t been fully encoded. Raw takes. Wonky formatting. Unpolished edges.

They stay because the patterns are still good.

The Collection

Red Soles, Dead Souls How Louboutin went from sex magick to basic bitch starter pack. The semiotics of luxury decay.

Professor X Is Another Epstein Magneto is the real big homie. Power dynamics, mutant politics, and who actually protects the marginalized.

The Front Door Principle Why ChatGPT is the only AI bet that compounds. Distribution > capability.

Harmony Korine & The Feeld Generation Trauma, intimacy, and the aesthetics of dissociation. What Spring Breakers predicted about modern dating.

Foxy Brown’s Math Was Right Reframing affirmative action through expected value. The quantitative case she was making all along.

The Half-Dosed Redpill Fantasy Why most “transformation” content is cope. The difference between aesthetic change and structural change.

Still Referring to Kik Is a Red Flag Technology as cultural timestamp. What your app references reveal about your last update.

TI-83 Drugwars The game that taught a generation risk management, inventory optimization, and when to exit a position.

Young Thug’s Uy Scuti Cultural law, black swans, and rap’s new pronunciation canon. How one artist rewrote the rules.

How To Be Antifragile The art of benefiting from chaos. Taleb’s framework applied to life design.

These essays predate the current production system. They’re preserved as-is—formatting quirks and all.