The Saver's Trap

After the Rush Podcast · Sep 17, 2026 · 13m · transcript

There are good beans going stale in a jar above my coffee maker. I have been saving them for a special morning that has not arrived in four months, and this week I finally admitted to myself why.

This episode is about the saver’s trap. Not about being cheap, which is a simpler problem, but about what happens to the genuinely careful people, the ones who did everything right, when the math finally turns and the whole point of all that saving arrives, and they discover they cannot spend it. Not because the number frightens them, but because the only muscle they ever trained was the one that…