Here's the thing. If you are now between something like 42 and 56 years old, which is roughly the age range of the Gen X cohort, you have to make this pivot stick. It has to go the distance. This is not the novelty business. You start on a lark in your 20s without caring too much

about whether it fails because you have all the time in the world. It's also not the bucket list

venture you embark on post-retirement because time is running out and if not now, when. No, if you

are in middle age and faced with the prospect of retrofitting your career to the new economy, you need to be able to take it with you all the way to the finish line.

And that finish line may be 20 years out still. Most of us aren't retiring anytime soon.

Okay. anytime soon. Hi, everyone.

Welcome to the Unspeakable podcast.

This episode is going to be a little different.

I'm not going to have a guest,

but instead I wanted to say a couple of things to you directly. First, I'm going to

talk about some changes to the show coming up in the next coming weeks and months. And then also,

and actually more importantly, I want to share some thoughts I've had about the show, about podcasting

in general, and just about this strange moment we seem to have found ourselves in in the culture.

We being a lot of us.

Me, maybe you.

Not everyone, obviously, but I think a lot of us.

The show, believe it or not, just came up on its one-year anniversary.

The first episode posted on July 27th, 2020.

It was an interview with evolutionary biologist Dr. Heather Heying.

And we talked about, among lots of other things, the tension between biologically driven reproductive strategies and social progress.

Anyway, there have been more than 40 episodes since then.

And almost all of them, in one way or another, have been about tension.

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