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C. Thi Nguyen

C. Thi Nguyen

Price Discoveries

Price Discoveries

Why auctions feels better.

Join 140K+ semi-rich, totally exhausted readers (great at their jobs, better at a dinner parties) AND get paid for your opinions.

Looking Stupid

Looking Stupid

It’s something we do. Let's be proud of it.

Measured Tones

Measured Tones

Why econospeak makes clowns of us all.

Plan-Do Attitude

Plan-Do Attitude

Financially speaking, we've got systems not convictions.

Class
Notes

By examining how precarious privilege shapes expectations and habits, Upper Middle’s Class Notes defang the our collective anxiety about status, money, and taste. Come for the close-readings of consumer trends, normalized experiences, and corporate totalitarianism. Stay for the dirty jokes.


Bad Circulation

Bad Circulation

What can we learn from successful mediocrity?

Measured Tones

Measured Tones

Why econospeak makes clowns of us all.

Looking Stupid

Looking Stupid

It’s something we do. Let's be proud of it.

Harem Pants

Harem Pants

What actually sets the Epstein Class apart.

Wink at Cops

Wink at Cops

Compliance isn’t virtue.

Beauty Markdown

Beauty Markdown

Zoning is about curation. Curation is attention. Attentions is about what you choose to ignore.

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Thought Leadership
(from actual thinkers)

Status
Reports

Upper Middle's "Status Reports" use survey data to decode how social, cultural, and financial forces shape both our choices and our sense of self. Each report draws on correlations to expose impulse-driving biases and the subtle ways we've been socialized – for better and for worse. In understanding people like us, we.


Plan-Do Attitude

Plan-Do Attitude

Financially speaking, we've got systems not convictions.

Lustful Yearnings

Lustful Yearnings

There’s been a professional prestige inversion and it makes it hard to talk about what we do all day.

Therapyspeak

Therapyspeak

You can't gaslight us. But we can gaslight you.

Financial Whoopsies

Financial Whoopsies

Having money doesn't mean that you're good with it.

Very Guilty Pleasures

Very Guilty Pleasures

Man, we really don't like ourselves.

Diet Nepotism

Diet Nepotism

Most of us get a leg up. But that's not really the thing that matters.

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