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Essay no. 04

I bought life insurance at 29. Here's the spreadsheet that talked me into it.

A weekend, a flat white, and a worryingly detailed Google Sheet. By the end I'd both bought a policy and cancelled a different one. Here's the math.

Iris Okafor·8 min·Read essay →
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