Modest Operations | Newsletter Volume 15

I forgot to schedule this newsletter to automatically send out this morning (LA time), so I'm sending it now (Wednesday morning Tokyo time).

Hope everyone's having a great week! Back to our regularly scheduled programming next week.

This Week's Links A list of things I've been reading & thinking about.* "The upper echelon is hoarding money and privilege to a degree not seen in decades. But that doesn’t make them happy at work." - America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Miserable (Charles Duhigg for The New York Times Magazine) * "The world of congressional staffs is one of long hours and low pay, with much of the work shouldered by twentysomething junior aides who are learning on the job. Some members of Congress are notorious for round-the-clock phone calls, late-night email and fierce attention to their own press coverage. Ms. Klobuchar is among them, but former aides said they were especially troubled by her willingness — in excess of other senators’, they said — to embarrass staff members over minor missteps or with odd requests." - How Amy Klobuchar Treats Her Staff (Matt Flegenheimer and Sydney Ember for The New York Times) * "For our Money issue, we interviewed 15 people—and asked writer Ijeoma Oluo to contribute an essay—on the subject of windfalls. How they got their money, and what they did with it, was both as intensely personal, and shaped by cultural expectations, as anything else." - 15 People Whose Lives Were Suddenly Changed by a Financial Windfall (Andy Wright, Jhoni Jackson and Haley Cohen Gilliland for Topic)