The Blunder Years, Episode 12: Career vs. self and the trade-off of adulthood

When do you focus on career more? When do you focus on partying? When do you focus on family? What about travel? How does the balance work? 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

The Blunder Years, Episode 5: The Encouragement Engineer and the “reality of life kicking in”

Work-life balance

Work-life balance, losing parents and losing kids, not being able to give 110 percent at work anymore, and the “value chasm” of individuals. Continue Reading

Yea, uh, sorry Bill, but no one in this office actually cares about that thing

Everything in some organizations can feel important and urgent and “I needed this yesterday.” A lot of that is just BS. Continue Reading

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The Blunder Years, Episode 4: From gun in mouth to human growth

At some point in late 2016, Sid Clevinger had a gun in his mouth and had lost $150,000. Now he’s doing much better. Here’s the journey. Continue Reading

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The Blunder Years, Episode 3: “It’s easy to wake up in your 30s and think you have no friends”

Episode nuggets: Stop playing the victim, the changing nature of friends in your 30s, social media, and fear about newborns. Continue Reading

Blunder Years, Episode 2: Miscarriages, motherhood, long-term sexuality

An episode with thoughts into miscarriages, the role of social media in our world, sex as a habit, the weird work and personal lines that we draw around ourselves, and the big difference between how we grow up and how we’re expected to move through adulthood. Continue Reading

Blunder Years, Episode 1: “Existential Adriftness”

A conversation about drinking wine in bathtubs, cricket emojis, Internet friends, and whether your 30s are when you “deserve more.” Continue Reading