The Blunder Years, Episode 41: Retirement + downsizing + the role of your adult kids
What’s it like, process-wise, to move out of the house you’ve been in since 1987? What are the emotions? Continue Reading
Aging
So, when do we think hiring ageism now begins?
Basically, what we do is lie to candidates (and the broader market) about what actually matters to us as employers. Continue Reading
The Blunder Years, Episode 7: Aging parents + “Everybody is nuts”
A conversation about taking care of your parents, the 20-40-60 rule about human empathy, women at work, and more. Continue Reading
Could good design/UX help us retire better?
This topic has been coming up a lot recently. Harvard Business Review had a whole article on it — with studies! — a few days ago, and here’s a profile of Facebook’s former design chief joining WealthFront as a VP of design.… Continue Reading
Four ideas we get totally wrong about retirement
The new cover of TIME Magazine — and you can argue over how relevant TIME Magazine is to the modern day, but it’s still a thing millions of people at least glance at on newsstands every week — is a… Continue Reading
Demographic shifts: The population pyramid is over. What does that mean?
This is the first blog post I’ve written in about a week, because I was in Paris and London with my wife for the better part of the last seven days. (I’ll do a recap post on that a little… Continue Reading
Should we be scared of everyone living longer?
100 used to be a semi-unattainable age. It still mostly is, but more and more people will get there — to the point that The Atlantic did a cover story on that topic, which I just read on a plane. (Interestingly, the… Continue Reading
If we can extend the length of human telomeres, can we basically end the era of humans dying?
That’s a trailer for a movie that was accepted into South x Southwest this year called The Immortalists. You can read more about it here, but essentially the film follows two guys — not exactly or really scientists, per se —… Continue Reading