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January 2023

Rehearsing Retirement
not ready yet!
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John Caddell

December 2022

March 2022

A Sleep Idea I'm Going to Try
I am always looking for ways to improve my sleep. Some ways are harder than others (dry January or eating dinner before 6, for example). I have a Fitbit…
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John Caddell
Thinking about knowledge, wisdom, values
I referred to Ted Gioia’s newsletter The Honest Broker in a prior post, when he referenced the philosopher Byung-Chul Han’s tenet that “multitasking is…
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John Caddell
Finding purpose in a non-profit
A friend shared her story of how her career progressed from television marketing, to soft-drink marketing, and finally to having spent the last decade…
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John Caddell

February 2022

What we spend less time doing #5: opening the mail (?)
More on stuff and worrying
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On the lookout for the "encore thing"
In response to this question: “how has your view of how you want to spend time? How has that changed in the last 10 years or so?” a friend told me this…
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Dickens' Mr. Pickwick captures the joy of an energetic post-career phase
'I shall never regret,' said Mr. Pickwick in a low voice, 'I shall never regret having devoted the greater part of two years to mixing with different…
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Midweek special - 46 years working at the dry cleaners
I stopped into the dry cleaners’ today. It was my first time in this location because the location we had used prior was closed in 2021. The woman who…
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"I still feel like the 30-year-old me"
Another item from my Connecticut friend: So we don't really know [what we will do when we retire]. I think that right now at this moment, we're trying…
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John Caddell

January 2022

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