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The “Don’t Die” movement has a certain blunt appeal—optimize everything, control every variable, outrun mortality through metrics. Bryan Johnson is its poster child: disciplined, regimented, tracked to the decimal. Admirable? Sure. But also a kind of longevity narcissism, where life becomes a lab experiment instead of a lived experience. “Do Live,” on the other hand, ...
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The “Don’t Die” movement has a certain blunt appeal—optimize everything, control every variable, outrun mortality through metrics. Bryan Johnson is its poster child: disciplined, regimented, tracked to the decimal. Admirable?
December 16, 2025
When I was in high school, shortcuts showed up as Cliff Notes and Evelyn Wood speed-reading classes—promising smarter, faster versions of ourselves without the messy middle. Today’s shortcuts are far
December 15, 2025
If you’re in the second half of life, you’ve already earned a kind of wisdom that younger versions of you couldn’t have imagined. You know what matters. You’ve lived enough
December 14, 2025
How we start the year and what rituals we welcome into our lives can have a profound influence on how we experience our year. That’s why Teddi Dean (and I)
December 13, 2025
So we listened. This year, we’re launching a new format at MEA Santa Fe: powerful 3- and 4-night workshops designed for those who want the essence of MEA in a
December 12, 2025
On November 30, the New York Times offered an Op-Ed from Cathi Hanauer with the title of today’s blog post. Cathi co-founded the NYT “Modern Love” with her husband Daniel
December 11, 2025
If I had to distill midlife into a single insight, it’s this: wisdom is simply evolution put to work—the ability to turn experience into better decisions. Not the decisions we
December 10, 2025
A lot. Not just the occasional “Where did I put my keys?” but full-blown commentary on squirrels, grocery store produce, and whether French fries at 10:30 a.m. count as breakfast.
December 9, 2025
Maybe that’s part of entering life’s wisdom era—you start naming the things you’ve lived enough to recognize. So as the year winds down, I’ve been reflecting on five of my
December 8, 2025
My motorcycle sleeps like a horse – standing. Yet I found it laying on the ground, dragged violently in this Colorado Rockies hotel’s parking lot; broken light, ripped pads and
December 7, 2025
I danced with the road, meandering on my motorcycle through a forest once consumed by fire. Out of charred remains, new shoots of life were already rising – signs of
December 6, 2025
I watched a film recently, Come See Me in the Good Light, that had me crying and laughing. It reminded me of my tenacity and grace when it comes to
December 5, 2025
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