Big companies need fewer people to succeed. This reality will only accelerate. The twin dynamics of AI and ageism make Gen X especially expendable. The flip side: You can start tiny, highly profitable companies that let you earn everywhere and live anywhere. Same force. Different outcome.

The first NFL game I took my then 10-year-old son to, Broncos beat the Patriots in overtime. That kid has been an unstoppable good luck charm at live sporting events ever since.

Minnesota is the best of us.

Broncos win!

The Broncos are trying to kill me.

You gave your best decades to companies that are making decisions about your economic viability without your input or regard for your well-being. You can’t control when they hire you, when they eliminate you, or whether other management will think differently about you.

Avalanche won #GoAvsGo Broncos won #GoBroncos Nuggets win #MileHighBasketball

Here’s the mistake most people make when they try to change: * They follow the guru’s playbook. * They copy someone else’s success story. * They adopt the strategies of a prominent entrepreneur or bestselling author. And they fail or burn out. Because that person’s genre is different from yours.

Your values are shifting. The world is changing faster than ever. And your brain is still operating on 10,000-year-old survival software that has no idea what’s going on. This third article of the Midlife Remix series will help you understand why change isn’t just possible; it’s necessary.

A timeless classic no matter how you play it.

Are you excited about changing your story at midlife? Hopefully so. But you also may be thinking about the last time you tried to make a significant change. And you’re remembering that it felt difficult, bordering on impossible.

That discontent and restlessness you’re feeling? That’s not a malfunction. That’s your brain finally recognizing the current story needs change. This isn’t a midlife crisis. It’s a midlife plot twist.

RIP Ace Frehley. You were always the coolest guy in KISS.

If you're between 45 and 65, you’ve likely realized the game has changed. The old playbook (get good grades, climb the ladder, retire at 65) is broken. The new reality requires new strategies. Time to rewrite the script. Or if you prefer, adopt a new playbook.

People who take in more negative age beliefs tend to show worse physical, cognitive, and mental health. But the good news is that those who are exposed to or develop more positive age beliefs tend to show benefits in physical, cognitive, and mental health.

We all remember the advice from Dead Poets Society: "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." Now that we’re at midlife, here's an alternative Latin phrase for Generation X: Carpe vitam. Seize your life.

Beginning of our third month in Baja Sur, first hurricane. Just steady rain so far, which is actually nice. On generator power at the beach.

Jok is just too good at these heaves 😮‍💨 Cracked NBA’s top 20 plays

We don’t have to look into the future of medical age-reversal treatments to see a great divide in longevity rates. It’s happening in the United States right now. The key is to take a closer look at how “life expectancy” is determined, while also challenging the notion of a “United” States.

Being in the U.S. is like swimming in a soup of anger, anxiety, and aggravation. It permeates the entire experience of living as if it’s normal. That doesn’t exist here in Baja Sur, and it doesn’t exist in any of the other places I’ve lived for extended periods.

Picture this: Your boss just called you into their office. You’re not being laid off, but your role will now be as an independent contractor instead of a W-2 employee. Would you view it as a loss or the opportunity of a lifetime?

Medical advances and lifestyle changes have already blessed Baby Boomers with longer, healthier lives, and this is now creating an unintended consequence: They're squeezing Generation X out of the executive suite.

What’s behind the surge in people ditching traditional employment and heading out on their own? Other than Corporate America’s propensity to hire you when it’s convenient and dump you when it’s profitable, of course. We all know that part.

What did I tell you?

On one hand, no shit. On the other, the WSJ and Murdoch are not messing around. They want him gone.

Doing challenging new things improves your cognitive functioning, as long as it pushes your abilities. Learning another language, in particular, keeps the brain in optimum condition by providing tools to decrease memory loss and increase neurological regeneration.

RIP Ozzy Osbourne. You lived a crazy full life despite the odds.

At midlife, you’re likely sitting on a goldmine of expertise that can be used to start a location-independent business. Or perhaps you want to become an expert in an entirely different domain as the basis of your business. What if I told you that the key to doing either one is the same?

You need some innovative, sexy idea to start a business, right? No, all you need is a solution to a problem that people will pay for. Most people at midlife are sitting on a goldmine and don't even know it.

With increases in lifespan and healthspan, very few can afford retirement at 65 while living into their late 80s, 90s, and beyond.

On May 30, 2025, we closed the sale of our home in Boulder. In the three weeks prior, we had gifted or sold all our furniture. We cleaned out a horrendous amount of accumulated crap. And then we hopped on a plane to Baja Sur to lock down a place to live for the rest of the year.

Everywhere you look, people are labeling yet another country as the “next Portugal.” But what if the next Portugal for you is… Portugal?

Picture this: You're answering emails while sipping locally-grown coffee on your terrace, surrounded by mist-covered mountains and the kind of silence that lets you actually think. Just you, your laptop, and a view that stretches to both the Pacific and Caribbean on clear days.

As you enter your 50s, you no longer feel compelled to dance to society's soundtrack. You start to tune out the sound of so-called success that's been in your ears since you were young, and instead define success in terms that make sense for yourself.

People want independence from the unreasonable constraints and control of traditional employment. More and more people are claiming that independence.

People aged fifty and over already account for more than half of consumer spending in the United States and 83% of household wealth, with both numbers expected to increase significantly. And odds are you’ll be attempting to convince an older female consumer.

It's gonna take a miracle for the Nuggets to win in OKC without Aaron Gordon, but I'm happy that everyone now knows how important that guy is.

20 years ago last Friday, they wheeled me in for emergency surgery, and I said goodbye to my wife, not quite three-year-old daughter, and newborn son. I knew that sometimes people don’t wake up from brain surgery, and this might be the last time I saw them.

Skrillex at Red Rocks last night. Wait for the drop 🙂

Bench Westbrook, please.

As the first generation to rely almost exclusively on the 401(k) for our retirement savings instead of pensions of the past, we know one thing: The experiment has been a failure.

I know Dallas was super upset about Luka Doncic getting traded but Denver might actually burn itself to the ground if the Nuggets ever move Aaron Gordon

If you think Costa Rica is just for retirees, think again. Ojochal is an expat town on the Southern Pacific coast filled with active “on-the-ground” entrepreneurs mixed in with the digitally independent variety.

Just an hour from Panama City lies a place that challenges everything you might assume about Central American beach towns. Coronado, in Panama’s western province, has quietly transformed from a wealthy Panamanian weekend retreat into something far more interesting.

What happens when a country fundamentally disappoints a large number of its citizens? When a founding narrative of economic opportunity and prosperity devolves into an unattainable farce, what’s the result? Throughout human history, the answer has been the same.

When I tell you I have NEVER seen a closer call on a buzzer beater 🤯🤯🤯 #NBASky #SkyHoops

What if instead of a mere tax-deferred retirement account fueled by a stock market that may go nowhere in the next decade, you keep what you would pay in tax in your pocket? That’s what Uruguay is offering to location-independent professionals and expat business owners.

I’d been all over Costa Rica, but the Nicoya Peninsula had remained under my radar. That changed when I heeded some frequently heard advice from fellow travelers: "You’ve got to check out Nosara."

The choice for 50-somethings is clear: risk being replaced by AI in a corporate setting, or use AI to build something uniquely yours that no algorithm can replicate.

Prince died 9 years ago today. Still bummed.