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A new newsletter from me
Thank you for reading the occasional posts on rehearsing retirement. I have for the most part learned and written all I have to say on that subject. I…
May 14, 2023
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January 2023
Rehearsing Retirement
not ready yet!
Jan 15, 2023
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December 2022
A chess hustler compares the stages of life to a chess game
This priceless quote came from the Cafe Anne newsletter’s item titled “Life Advice from NYC Chess Hustlers.” Thanks to Ted Gioia, who included this in…
Dec 20, 2022
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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…
Mar 27, 2022
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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…
Mar 13, 2022
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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…
Mar 6, 2022
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February 2022
What we spend less time doing #5: opening the mail (?)
More on stuff and worrying
Feb 27, 2022
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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…
Feb 20, 2022
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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…
Feb 13, 2022
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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…
Feb 8, 2022
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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…
Feb 6, 2022
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January 2022
What we're doing less of #4 - worrying about productivity
“Fitter, happier, more productive.” Radiohead If you search on the term “productivity” on the Harvard Business Review website there are 1,621 articles…
Jan 30, 2022
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