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Older

Collection of philosophical dialogues, essays, and analysis focusing on Older.

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Aging Past You

By Tae-Sik • May 14, 2025 • ~5 min read

I'm sitting at a restaurant and notice a gentleman having lunch with his children.  He's disheveled, middle aged and the kids appear to be about 8yrs old.  If we were introduced, I wouldn't hesitate to address him as "sir", and use honorifics.  Then it dawns on me:  I could actually be older than him.  It's […]

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The Respectable Older Man

By Milan Ji • December 2, 2025 • ~6 min read

A young man’s value is self-evident and largely unearned. He walks into a room trailing decades of future productivity, like an invisible credit line, like a shadow ready to emerge. Society reads him the way venture capitalists read a Series A deck: high upside, tolerable risk, and, above all, a gloriously long runway. His mind […]

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