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How to Stop Trading Time for Money…

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Three prices exist for the same three days of work. Most…

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No Time to Start a Business? The…

The notebook is A5, hardback, navy, the kind a company buys…

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The Market for Experience After 40: Who…

Duncan kept the phone. It is a beige desk phone with…

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Experience Capital: What You Actually Own After…

The handover pack ran to forty pages. Frances printed it twice,…

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Retirement Is Not the Goal

ByIan HwangAug 4, 202616 min read

There is a number most successful people over 40 carry around without ever saying out loud. It is the age. Fifty-five, sixty, sixty-two: whatever the spreadsheet says is the year you finally get your life back. You don’t talk about it much, but you feel it. It sits behind the bad Mondays and the meetings […]

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How Much Money Is Enough?

ByIan HwangAug 8, 202620 min read

Your number keeps moving and you are the one moving it. The Enough Line is three tests for finding where money stops…

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Golden Handcuffs After 40: The Things You…

ByIan HwangAug 9, 202620 min read

The Tuesday after Marguerite left, her name went grey in the chat sidebar. Not gone. Grey. Twenty-six years compressed into a small…

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How to Teach What You Know After…

ByIan HwangAug 10, 202620 min read

You know more than you can explain, and it is costing you. A retrieval method for turning decades of judgment into something…

Detail of a nineteenth-century painting: a young man swings a scythe overhead in a field of tall reeds under an evening sky.

How to Stop Trading Time for Money…

ByIan HwangAug 13, 202620 min read

You left the job and still cannot stop working. The five-rung ladder that decides who gets free, and the one-week test that…