Turning Up the Heat
A year ago, we launched The Raad Life as something larger than a podcast. It was an invitation to stop treating the next chapter of life as something to manage—and start seeing it as something we still have the freedom
Retiring “Busy”: A Gen X Case for Freedom Always
Somebody asks how you've been. You don't even think about the answer anymore. It just comes out: "Busy. So busy." That was psychologist Dr. Andy Garrett's confession in the essay this piece is built on, and it's a Gen X reflex
I Don’t Hit the Ground Running on Mondays Anymore
On Labor Day, maybe the real question isn’t how hard we work. Maybe it’s why we’ve become so uncomfortable when we’re not working. There is something almost comical about publishing this on Labor Day, a national holiday meant, at least in
A Longer Life is Not the Point
We are getting remarkably good at adding years to life, but perhaps the moreinteresting challenge is deciding what those years are for. I recently read an interesting piece by futurist Carl Rohde titled Longevity as ContinuousLifestyle Optimization. His premise is that
The Second Canvas: Why Your Most Creative Years May Still Be Ahead of You
The kind of freedom that arrives in your fifties is one nobody warns you about. The noise quiets. The need to prove something softens. And in that space, sometimes for the first time, you hear yourself. For many people, this is