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What’s the meaning of life? Well, from an existential standpoint, the meaning life is whatever meaning you attribute to it. It’s a subjective thing. A more objective way to look at it is the meaning of life is the experience of living itself. While we ruminate about the past or fret about the future, profound …

What’s worse than feeling you haven’t lived the life you want? Some may say fear of failure outranks regret, but that’s not what you’ll hear from those who are facing death. They’ll tell you that they wish they’d taken more chances. After all, when you’re facing death, you’re acutely aware that this life is not …

In the last 200 years or so, the human lifespan has essentially doubled. That’s an amazing achievement. There’s a good chance that in the next 10-20 years, we’ll begin to push the envelope on that elevated average lifespan. The massive amount of investment in longevity science and efforts to defeat the diseases of aging seem …

It feels like a whole new world. Two weeks to the day after my second Moderna shot, the CDC revised its recommendations for fully-vaccinated folks. This prompted a whole lot of return visits to places I hadn’t been in over a year, often seeing people I haven’t seen in that same amount of time. Stuff …

This week we’re doing something a little different. The two big concepts that have resonated with Further readers over the last two years are the “personal enterprise” and “unretirement.” The personal enterprise is a different way of approaching work and making a living. It involves a series of projects that build progressive wealth and influence …

What a time to be at midlife, right? We’re facing a big double whammy of change — emerging technology that will shake up the very concept of traditional employment, plus the prospect of a work life that will likely stretch well into our 70s. That’s the topic of The New Long Life: A Framework for …

To experience meaningful change, it feels like we must add something to ourselves. New skills to be learned and new challenges accepted to build on who we are. As we’ve discussed before in the context of modern knowledge work, often you have to unlearn to truly make progress. We know we’re in for lifelong learning …

Purpose is important. In many ways, it’s the thing that keeps us going. Purpose is one of four core dimensions of well-being, along with awareness, connection, and insight. Having a sense of purpose is key to attaining life satisfaction, a more rewarding state than fleeting moments of happiness. There are more pragmatic benefits, too: Our …

We’ll see a lot of change in these new “roaring” twenties. The roaring, though, may be the pace of that change rather than the amount of fun everyone has. I’m still counting on fun, personally. One group that may be having more fun is women. That’s because they’re gaining wealth faster than men, to the …

We’ve been hearing for years how artificial intelligence is about to disrupt society and put people out of work. We’ve been hearing that for so long that it almost seemed overblown — some elaborate vaporware that’s nothing but hype. If you’ve felt that way, I’m afraid it wasn’t hype. In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also …

Greetings from Sedona! I’m currently on a road trip to San Diego (gotta see the ocean). And since we haven’t done a round-up issue in a while, this seems like a good time. Fortunately, there are lots of interesting items to guide you on the path to the life you want to lead. Let’s dive …

It’s a tale of two pandemic responses. Some ate and drank the pain of isolation away. Others worked out like their life depended on it (and in some cases, it did). I ended up somewhere in the middle. The spring of 2020 started off strong, then I fell off last summer before rallying at the …