Sascha Schulz
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Live longer. Speak more openly.
Old-age poverty in Germany, the EU, Asia and the US. Understand irregular work, business exits and the cost of a longer life, with examples, FAQ and glossary.
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Happiness Is Not on the Ballot
Governments appoint ministers for happiness and sort budgets by wellbeing. The data show where happiness is actually made: at the table, on the square, in trust between strangers,…
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The Invisible Bill
Money worries are treated as a private matter. Everyone pays for them anyway: employers, health systems and the state. The United Nations calls the remedy financial health.
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Form Is an Attitude
A well-made object tells you how long its maker expected you to keep it. The world’s growing heap of e-waste suggests we have stopped listening.
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Thinking Is a Public Act
Trust is falling and news avoidance is settling in. The remedy is not more information but more company: thinking out loud, in rooms with other people in them.
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Hands Up Is Not a Strategy
The first hundred days after losing a job decide less about money than about self-image. Three rules help: sort, speak, begin.
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The Machine Told a Joke
Software now writes jokes that strangers rate funnier than most people’s. What it cannot do is decide whether this is the moment for one.
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Money Is a Feeling
Money worries keep odd hours. Who could cope with a surprise bill, from Lagos to Tokyo, and why the real test of financial health is sleep.
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Scenarios, Not Forecasts
Forecasts record the mood of the moment more faithfully than the future. Scenarios do something humbler and more useful: they prepare us without pretending to know.
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Paper Remembers
Printed matter keeps something that screens let slip. Reading research and the stubborn book markets of Germany, the USA and Japan suggest why.