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The Runway Problem, Time, Youth and the Inevitable Wall

One of the most challenging realities of aging is the shortening runway. When you’re young, time stretches out like a long, open field, you have a long runway. You can run hard, build speed, take risks, and trust that you have enough distance to get airborne. Youth gives you the margin for error: time to […]

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Youth, Age, Energy & Serendipity

In the theater of a single life, where the curtains rise on boundless vitality and fall on quiet acceptance, there unfolds a profound arc shaped by the interplay of energy, time, and fortune.  Youth arrives as a lavish subsidy from the universe, a non-renewable gift of effortless abundance, where every sensation is amplified, every risk […]

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Energy, Atoms, Life & Batteries

In the beginning was energy.  Maybe it was matter, or something else.  For simplicity, let’s assume we started with energy.  The universe experienced the Big Bang.  Energy is converted into matter, or at least a lot of it was.  Energy becomes matter.  Energy is matter and matter is energy.  E=MC2, So the science goes. The […]