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Category: The Wisdom Worker

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The Problem with Retirement: A Case for the Modern Wisdom Worker

Not long ago my friend Tom called me six months into his retirement. Brilliant operations guy, thirty years solving problems nobody else could see. He’d left at 65, the prescribed...

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The full-time job norms you grew up with? They’re gone.

Not stretched. Not “challenging.” Gone. Here’s what happened while nobody was paying attention. The six-month job search is now normal The Wall Street Journal reports the average job search jumped...

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Cognitive Architecture: Where Growth Comes From Next

There’s a story in Think and Grow Rich that feels even more relevant today than it did when it was written nearly a century ago. (I wasn’t there, so I...

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The Power of Wisdom Work

We’ve lived through a few work eras. The industrial age — machines multiplied muscle. The knowledge age — computers multiplied information. Now we’re deep in the AI age — systems...