You know what’s wrong with most financial blogs? They are written by financial people.
Now, this is both a terrible punchline and a common experience in our industry. Don’t get me wrong—there are some wonderful writers in our industry, but our team knows where our time is best served: supporting you and your money. Members of Team Terramar, like Steve Rubinstein and myself, will be contributing frequently, but I’d like to introduce our Editor-in-Chief Cameron MacKenzie, who spearheaded our new blog, “For What It’s Worth.”
by: Cameron MacKenzie
We love money. Not in a Scrooge McDuck kind of way, but more in a way that helps us learn how to live. Money, we believe, is the mediator between us; it’s what we have in common—we all have it and spend it and worry about what to do with it. To try to understand money, to talk about and think about and write about money, is really to try to understand one another.
That’s what this blog wants to do: talk about money in order to get at the deeper motivations, the more profound explanations, of why we do what we do. We want to try to think about our relationship to money in new and surprising ways in order to help you prioritize how you spend it, save it, and invest it.
We’re going to talk about movies, about podcasts, about songs and news coverage and old books you know you were supposed to read but didn’t, as well as new books you don’t have the time to crack. We’re going to talk about stories and heroes and villains and maybe even indulge in a little pop psychology, because we all have a unique relationship to money—a relationship that, if we’re really willing to understand it, can tell us a lot about ourselves. And the better we use the money that we have, the more we can begin to free ourselves up for all that stuff that money allows us to do.
So we hope you’ll come with us for this trip, and we hope to give you some food for thought. In this increasingly transactional world, we think you need to understand those transactions from as many angles as you can. But we also need to understand what escapes those transactions, what those exchanges can never cover—what, in the end, we love even more than our money.
Cameron MacKenzie
Personal:
Cameron MacKenzie was born in Virginia and has worked as a dry cleaner, doorman, house painter, contractor, editor, and teacher, residing in Santa Barbara, London, Tokyo, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and now Virginia once again, where he lives with his two children.
Professional:
Cameron MacKenzie earned his PhD in English literature from Temple University in 2010. He has taught English, Creative Writing, and Philosophy at The San Francisco Art Institute, Lynchburg College, and Ferrum College. His essays, fiction, and reviews have appeared in The Michigan Quarterly Review, Salmagundi, The Rumpus, Popmatters, SubStance, and The Roanoke Review, among other places. His novel, The Beginning of His Excellent and Eventful Career (MadHat Press), and his collection of essays, Badiou and American Modernist Poetics (Palgrave Macmillan) were both published in 2018. His collection of short fiction, River Weather, will appear in 2021.
Opinions expressed here are those of the author and not necessarily those of SagePoint Financial, Inc.