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Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Aug 19

We're going to reclaim liberalism and forge a collective path to prosperity! Our guiding lights will be Amartya Sen, John Locke, and MLK!

And look, we're just asking questions, but is giving money to poor people really the right thing to do????

Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Aug 19

The Argument launched what, yesterday, and the first thing they publish is a hit piece on basic income/cash transfers research?! A little perspective, people, good gracious.

Home | Leah Evans Textiles

Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Aug 18

Here's her website: www.leahevanstextiles.com

www.leahevanstextiles.com

Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Aug 18

Really loving the textile art of Leah Evans
www.etsy.com/shop/LeahEva...

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Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Jul 31

Corn is coming along. Pumpkins are getting out of control.

Pumpkin plants spreading out of a bed over a lawn and up a chain-link fence

Uncertainty, Trust, Resilience, Freedom: 4 Words for the Present and Future of Financial Health - Financial Health Network

Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Jul 28

Link to the full blogpost: finhealthnetwork.org/uncertainty-...

Following his first EMERGE experience, Taylor C. Nelms – Vice President of Research & Insights at the Financial Health Network – reflects on the stories and themes that stood out most.

finhealthnetwork.org

Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Jul 28

I wrote this for an industry and nonprofit/philanthropic audience so pretty high-level. But I think it's useful to think about what are the positive (not as in optimistic, necessarily) framings that are compelling in this "moment of uncertainty."

Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Jul 28

3. Freedom -- personal and shared -- is not possible without financial security and economic prosperity. Financial health for all frees us from the tyrannies of scarcity and circumstance.

Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Jul 28

2. Resilience is about how we support each other in preparing for crisis and responding to it. Resilience, we might say, is the practical side of hope.

Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Jul 28

1. Trust is the bedrock of belonging, securing confidence in one another as much as in our institutions. But is it any wonder that in the face of crisis, confusion, and conspiratorialism, that distrust and mistrust are on the rise?

Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Jul 28

In professional settings, instead of stating the obvious, everyone keeps talking about "uncertainty." But we need better, clearer, more substantive concepts to orient our work, especially as researchers. I offer up 3 alternatives to "uncertainty."

Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Jul 28

I've been very quiet on here and may remain so. But I have a new gig leading research for the Financial Health Network, an independent, national nonprofit think tank focused on people's financial well-being.

I wrote brief reflections on the future of thinking about financial health. The takeaway?

Videos Make #Paydayroutines Everybody’s Business

Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Jul 7

If I had the time, I'd write something about this: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/b...

Maybe @jcultecon.bsky.social can help ...

www.nytimes.com

Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Feb 23

Very important to remember that almost all bosses manage via Freudian projection.

Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Feb 16

Everybody's heard of *My Teacher Is an Alien* but did you know there are count em three sequels in a series that becomes an increasingly sophisticated secular theodicy?

Bruce Coville man, underrated hero.

Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Feb 15

Somehow not sure we've made enough of the fact that the "government efficiency" initiative looking for spare change by shutting down the fight against cancer is being let by the richest human being in modern history.

Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Feb 8

Poirot/Batman crossover WHEN

Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Feb 7

Kids are going to be SO prepared for a life of orangutan hunting.

Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Jan 25

"... Yet even once one had glimpsed behind the veil which separates people, as she had -- how hard it proves to keep the lives of others in mind! Everything conspires against it. Life itself."

Zadie Smith, *The Fraud*

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Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Jan 25

"We mistake each other. Our whole social arrangement a series of mistakes and compromises. Shorthand for a mystery too large to be seen. ..."

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Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Jan 25

Chavis Mármol, untitled destruction project (Neo-Tameme series)

hyperallergic.com/878913/artis...

Life-size replica of a Olmec head statue in stone, dropped on a blue Tesla, crushing it

Taylor C. Nelms @taylornelms.bsky.social · Jan 25

Showing photos of magnapinna squid: "And this one is next to an oil rig."

The 4yo: "Can I see a picture of an oil rig?"

Shows him.

"Can I see a picture of an oil rig on FIRE?"