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The Great Recalibrating
Three years ago, back when Peyton Manning was a Colt and Tim Tebow a Gator, things were groovy at work and home. I was enjoying bringing home the bacon and the GalPal was cool cooking it. She’d cook...
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Sentences to Ponder
“He realized he needed a change in May 2013, after his then-10-year-old daughter wrote him a list of 22 milestone events in her life he had missed.” The rest of the story is here and here. TMZ will...
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What We Get Wrong About Work and Retirement
A fair number of my friends are in their late 50’s to mid-60’s meaning they’re heading towards the exits at work. Some who’ve recently retired are struggling to adapt to life without work routines....
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My favorite 21 year old is graduating college this May and “launching” shortly thereafter. A college friend, a 56 year old retired SoCal fire fighter, was just accepted to a Physician’s Assistant...
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On Professional Success
For some reason, chauffeuring my daughters to the airport inspires very good conversations. Recently, I mostly listened as Eldest talked about her work at a humanities library in Chicago. I’m proud of...
View ArticleOn Workism
Derek Thompson’s Atlantic essay “The Religion of Workism is Making Americans Miserable” deserves widespread discussion around dinner tables; and in churches; synagogues; and heaven for bid, workplaces....
View ArticleOn Obsessiveness
Tyler Cowen’s “My days as a teenage chess teacher” is interesting on a lot of levels. For instance, take lesson learned #6 of 7. “6. The younger chess prodigy I taught was quite bright and also...
View ArticleHow To Embrace Doing Nothing
An Arthur C. Brooks tutorial. “One can always take this defense of idleness too far and risk becoming like the lazy man who, when asked ‘What do you do?’ answers, ‘As little as possible.’ The trick is...
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