THE LIFE WE POSTPONE: A Tuesday Worth Living
What if the goal isn’t an extraordinary life, early retirement or a perfect bucket list? Maybe a good life is one where an ordinary Tuesday is actually worth living.
THE LIFE WE POSTPONE: Retirement Is a Very Strange Deal
We give work some of the strongest decades of our lives, then expect retirement to return our freedom in our late sixties. Why have we built adulthood around such a strange bargain?
THE LIFE WE POSTPONE: The Bucket-List Problem
We’re told to collect extraordinary experiences before we die. But what if a life well lived depends less on the bucket list and more on whether we actually enjoy the thousands of ordinary days betwee
THE LIFE WE POSTPONE: When Did Adults Stop Playing?
We teach children to play, then spend adulthood telling ourselves to grow up. What if responsibility never required us to become so relentlessly serious? Primary keyword: adult playfulness
THE LIFE WE POSTPONE: Rats in the Rat Race
Thousands of us commute beside one another every day without really seeing each other. What does the rat race teach us about attention, strangers and the parts of life we treat as dead time?
THE LIFE WE POSTPONE: The Conveyor Belt
School prepares us for work. Work prepares us for retirement. But if every stage of life is preparation for the next one, when exactly are we supposed to start living?