Essays

These are long-form reflections on money, psychology, purpose, and freedom.

I don’t write them to persuade or to react to current events. I write them to clarify what experience has made difficult to ignore. Most began as private questions. Some became book chapters. A few only existed because certainty failed and something more honest was required.

This collection isn’t updated frequently. When an idea is still forming, I leave it alone. When it becomes clear, I publish it. When clarity deepens, I revise rather than replace.

If there’s a common thread here, it’s this: outcomes are rarely accidental. They are shaped quietly, over time, by beliefs, identity, and the structures we tolerate or build.

These essays are meant to be read slowly. They are not instructions. They are examinations.

— Rich Abbott