David M. Ewalt, Contributor
I write about games, technology, and people's passions.
To me, money is…like air and water–essential. Not because we derive an ersatz self-esteem from our breathing and drinking prowess or to impress others with our ever larger air and water tanks, but because having an adequate and reliable supply enables us to not think about it at all.
My last significant purchase…could be several things depending on the adverb modifying “significant,” “emotionally” leading to one choice (a secret), “professionally” to another (books) and “monetarily significant” to, although it’s become something of synecdoche for a certain demographic group, a Volvo.
Professor of mathematics at Temple University, John Allen Paulos is author of the bestsellers Innumeracy and A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market.