What’s in Store for Solving for Why in 2026

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Hey friends! Welcome to 2026! Let me tell you what’s in store for you at Solving for Why® this year.

First, a bit of housekeeping.

After about a year of debating this, I’m making the switch. I’ve started a new Substack. Nothing is changing for this blog. I will always be posting my content here.

I’ll also keep up my mailing list (if you haven’t yet, you can sign up here: home.markshrime.com).

But I’m winding down my writing on Medium. I’ve really not wanted to abandon all you readers who have been loyal to my Medium blog for so long, which is why this move has been such a long time coming. That said, I hate to say it, but Medium has gradually deprioritized the author experience, so it’s finally time to make the jump. I’ll also continue to crosspost to Medium. After that, I’ll keep the Medium archive up for, well, archive purposes.

Anyway, enough logistics.

Here’s what’s in store for 2026!

In addition to moving to a new platform, I’m changing the format of my posts this year, all in an effort to make your experience so much more predictable (and easily digestible).

Each month, expect three blog posts, emails, and videos, all around a central theme. The blog posts will come out the first three Tuesdays of the month, and they’ll be shorter than the ones I’ve written for the last two years—some of those ran upwards of 3000 words! Here’s what each month will look like:

1. The stories: These posts will be real life, actual stories of consequential decisions from my own life and the lives of my clients (with their permission!), some of which were navigated well, and some very, very poorly.

2. The science: these posts will go into the science behind the story. We’ll talk about what went wrong—the fallacies, the biases—and what went right. We’ll explore research, decision frameworks, and what’s still not yet known about the science of decision making. These posts will be the dork inside me seeing the dork inside you.

3. The practice: These posts will round out the month. They’ll be the how-tos, steps to apply the science and the frameworks to navigate your own consequential decisions well. These will be the guides: How do you build a decision model? How do you approach budgeting? How do you tackle identity shifts?

Here’s the month-by-month breakdown for January to June.

January: Slow knowing

1. Story: I sat with a decision for a year, even though I knew what the right thing was

2. Science: Unconscious thought theory

3. Practice: Discernment is both a practical and a spiritual practice

February: Financial security during consequential decisions

1. Story: “What am I supposed to do? I need a million dollars a year to survive” (a true story)

2. Science: Emotional salience and decision paralysis

3. Practice: A mindful approach to facing your finances

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

March: What do you actually want?

1. Story: The dream job that wasn’t (a story about chasing what I thought I wanted)

2. Science: Revealed preferences versus stated preferences

3. Practice: How to discover what you really want

April: The math of meaning

1. Story: The drug dealer pyramid, and why we sometimes take big risks

2. Science: Expected utility theory and choosing a mate

3. Practice: Two techniques for measuring your utility

May: The unknown—handled

1. Story: The leap I almost didn’t take

2. Science: The upside of uncertainty

3. Practice: Two bad ways (and one good way) to handle uncertainty

June: A mid-year audit

1. Story: A bad outcome from a good decision

2. Science: The hindsight and outcome biases

3. Practice: How to do a thoughtful mid-year audit

January’s first post comes out next week; I’ll see you then! And as always, let me know if there’s a specific topic you’re interested in tackling!

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