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Minus the flash, the neon, the tailoring and the quipping, “LifeHack” is a kind of “Ocean’s Eleven” for Gen Z: a breathless, ingenious caper that moves at about 200 megabits per second.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

A long-running, publicly available database from AQR Capital Management, “Quality Minus Junk,” shows that its particular formula of buying quality and selling junk stocks struggled mightily following last spring’s bounce.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

One day, in mid-September, when Minus logged on, she received an unexpected flurry of messages from both close friends and people she hadn’t spoken to in years.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025

He became not just a man, "but a lowercase god of post-ironic worship: Lord Himesh. In fact, the whole idea of calling someone 'Lord' is just ironic surrender," writes journalist Anurag Minus Verma.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025

“Fine. I’ll give you a 95. Minus five points for bad penmanship.”

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle