Jess Jang

Jess Jang appears in Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 Valentines as the Planet Money participant giving a Valentine to Jesse Doherty’s [[WashingtonPost|Washington Post]] article on competitive [[MicrosoftExcel|Microsoft Excel]].

Her segment frames spreadsheets as a high-skill expressive system rather than merely office software. By admiring Excel competitors and the article’s sports-writing tone, she helps the source turn Competitive Spreadsheeting into a small economics-of-skill and spectacle case.

Connections

• Planet Money and NPR - show and network context.
• Jesse Doherty and [[WashingtonPost|Washington Post]] - article and publication she praises.
• Microsoft Excel - software at the center of the competition.
• Competitive Spreadsheeting - concept surfaced by her segment.