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A client turned down the board seat everyone expected her to take, and it reframed how I think about scale in the next chapter.
A cat named Oliver, a library book, and an argument with a dead Russian novelist.
A Yale study, a mahjong table, and the belief that walks into your plan unexamined.
Two friends, roughly the same money, completely different answers to the same question.
I do this for a living. I still let a valuable working relationship go cold. What that taught me about the next chapter.
He sold his company for nearly a billion dollars. Then he said the thing I hear from people at the end of every kind of career.
New research says AI is nudging people out of long careers before they're ready, and it changes what this chapter is really about.
The whole world felt it this week. Here's the part worth noticing about that feeling.
They didn't reinvent themselves. They finally got the room.
The "where should we retire" question is an identity question wearing a real-estate costume.
A TikTok about portfolio careers, and what it revealed about designing the next 30 years.
Most people plan what comes next. Few ask who.
On the difference between adapting to what exists and designing for what you actually need.
A farewell at Roland Garros, and what it revealed about identity, exit, and what comes next.
A statistic, a feature in Entrepreneur, and the gap that's finally getting a name
A night at Alvin Ailey, and the thing nobody told me to expect
It began in a small town in Iowa, watching someone I loved lose more than a business.
And what I built because of it.
The tiles were almost beside the point.
The further they went, the clearer home became.
A few resources that capture how I think about identity, transition, and what comes next.
One of the biggest challenges in transition is not logistics. It’s identity.
The financial side may be in place. The identity side is often harder.
When relevance changes faster than we do.
Longevity just changed the math.
