The Inheritance Project
Essays
Perspectives
Symbology & Metaphors
Money & Meaning
What Is an Inheritance?
The most dangerous thing about inheritance is that we rarely get a say in what we receive. A perspective.
Read EssayAn Unlikely Romance
When Physicists of the West meet Philosophers from the East.
Read EssayThe Ledger We Don’t Choose
An exploration of how money became the most literal and crucial inheritance we have.
Read EssayThe Inheritance Project
Who are you? What made you? What did you make of it?
Essays on what we receive before we have the language to refuse or accept it — family, history, culture, and money.
Read More About The Inheritance Project →“A line does not end with you. It only pauses, waiting to see what you’ll add before it continues.” — from What Is an Inheritance?
A Note on This Project
Every essay here starts with the same question: what did I inherit, and did anyone ask me first? Some answers are about money. Most aren’t.