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 Washington Post article on competitive 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 Washington Post - article and publication she praises.
- Microsoft Excel - software at the center of the competition.
- Competitive Spreadsheeting - concept surfaced by her segment.