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How to Build a Second Career After…

There is a particular kind of Sunday evening that people in…

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Retirement Is Not the Goal

There is a number most successful people over 40 carry around…

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How Much Money Is Enough?

Your number keeps moving and you are the one moving it.…

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Golden Handcuffs After 40: The Things You…

The Tuesday after Marguerite left, her name went grey in the…

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How to Teach What You Know After…

You know more than you can explain, and it is costing…

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Personal Brand After 40: How to Get…

ByIan HwangJul 30, 202616 min read

You are, on paper, the most qualified person in the room. Twenty-five years of doing the actual work, a track record you could recite in your sleep, judgment that has been quietly right more often than not. And yet the inbound call goes to someone fifteen years younger who has a newsletter, a tidy little […]

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Midlife Reset: How to Restart Your Life…

ByIan HwangAug 1, 202615 min read

Somewhere in your forties or fifties, a particular feeling arrives, and it rarely announces itself as a problem. You are driving a…

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Identity Crisis After Success: Who Are You…

ByIan HwangAug 1, 202615 min read

For thirty years, you woke up needed. It’s the one thing no one prepares you to lose. Decisions waited on your desk.…

Detail of a seventeenth-century painting: an old woman in a red bodice and white collar sits at a spinning wheel, her hands drawing thread from the distaff.

The Expertise Flywheel: Why Some Experts Work…

ByIan HwangAug 2, 202612 min read

Picture two people who have done the same work for thirty years. Same field, same competence, roughly the same reputation. One of…

Detail of a Courbet portrait: a bearded man's face lit sharply from the left, the top of his head cropped by the frame.

How to Build a Second Career After…

ByIan HwangAug 3, 202617 min read

There is a particular kind of Sunday evening that people in their late forties know well. The week ahead is fully visible:…