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Thoughts on reinvention, clarity, work, money, and the quiet decisions that shape a life. New essays each week as we explore what it means to build a life with intention.
Already Gone, Not Yet Gone: The Psychology of the Final Stretch
I'm still doing the work, still delivering results, trying to finish strong. The psychology underneath it has changed. This is what the last year of work feels like from the inside, before anyone knows you're leaving.
She Could Have Asked Me to Keep Working
At nineteen I decided a woman might be right for me because she pulled grape at a 7-Eleven. At fifty-two I brought her the biggest decision of my adult life, and she told me that making it on a feeling wouldn't be right. This is the conversation underneath the spreadsheets, and the one almost nobody talks about.
Landing the Plane, Part 2: Timing Your Exit and Maximizing Your Final Working Year
You've done the math. You know your number. Now comes the part nobody talks about: actually leaving.
Landing the Plane, Part 1: Building Your Drawdown Framework
Eight years ago I drove through the Valley of the Sun for the first time and knew Arizona was exactly the change we needed. Learning to live there required an entirely new set of rules. The transition from accumulation to distribution is exactly like that.
How to Find Your Next Endeavor
Last week I waded through a red-rock canyon in Glacier's Canadian twin with the people I love most. This week I am at 31,000 feet over Kansas, racing the other direction. Here is the framework I am building toward, and the five paths worth exploring before you leave full-time work.
The Sequence That Determines Whether Your Retirement Lasts (And How to Sleep Through the Chaos)
I graduated from graduate business school in May 2007 into a city buzzing with possibility. By 2008, I was watching people carry file boxes out of high-rise towers. What I learned about markets in that season, no classroom ever taught me. This post is about the one retirement math concept most people skip entirely, and the three protections that let you sleep at night when markets do what markets inevitably do.