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report from the job front Two years ago in this newsletter we featured Len Psyk, a career commercial real estate executive with a boundless enthusiasm for new experiences and ventures. After the company he’d worked at for five years was acquired, he found himself out of a job. At 68...

Remember our monologue about the importance of reading a few issues back? Not the social feed, bite-size nonsense; and not wonderfully crafted novels either. But the kind of reading that provides context in our rapidly changing world. We subscribe to several newsletters and, since you’re the newsletter-subscribing type yourself, we’ve...

ultra adulthood “My mission is to find significance and to stop squandering the time I have been blessed with.” — from an email we received recently. Or as Seneca wrote, “The part of life we really live is small, for all the rest is not life, but merely time.” Old...

We’ve told you to watch your glycemic load, and our Facebook Group typically has excellent, extended discussions on weight-lifting and other strength training exercises (hint, hint). There’s a certain amount of effort and willpower required to getting your body into serious shape, so it’s nice to know there are easier,...

         

David Harry Stewart, co-founder of Ageist, talks to PSFK about starting the anti-AARP media company to recognize creatives over 50 PIERS FAWKES, PSFK :Is experience back in fashion? Do older folks provide us with a higher level of culture, community and creativity? In this extract from his PurpleList podcast, PSFK founder...

We talk a lot here about embracing the culture of the moment in ways that show your skills/products/business in fresh ways that help you stand out from the crowd. In the world of Amazon-anything, the one sure way to stand out is to create an experience for the customer. This...

As part of a recent vacation, I was exploring a small church cemetery in rural Spain, in a village perched on a cliff. A pretty place, nothing unusual, until I started looking at the dates on the headstones. Some people died in their 20s or 30s, but most made...

a light touch New York has had one of hell of a winter so far. But respite from the snowfall-thaw-snowfall pattern has already arrived in Madison Square Park. Austrian artist Erwin Redl’s "Whiteout” has haunted the long winter nights since Nov. 16. From a grid of steel cabling and poles hang...

live long, live well, die old. I am going to die. Fact. Not today, hopefully not anytime soon, but barring some amazing scientific advancement, there will be an end point. It’s a shame, but that’s the deal. The question then becomes how to live what time I have, and then...