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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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Aging & Retaining Value of Human Connection & Exchange

There comes a moment in life when a person begins to sense his or her own disappearance—not the biological one, but the social one. It is the quiet vanishing of relevance. You leave a job, you sell a business, you step back from the arena of competition, and suddenly, the world looks past you as […]

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Trading Marginal Value, Sovereignty, and Automatons

Human beings have birthrights and entitlements, unlike any other living creature. In democratic and free market nations, we have private property rights, the right to vote, the right to life, the freedom of speech, the freedom of movement, the freedom to work and pursue happiness.  We have freedoms and liberties given to us by “default”.  […]