Hi friends — Warm greetings from New York City. After spending three inspiring and restful weeks on the road, I’m finally back in the Big Apple, and it feels grounding to be home. Over the weekend, my wife and I made a significant decision: we’re relocating to the Hudson Valley this summer. Since purchasing a home in a quaint, wooded town outside the Catskills in 2015, we've gradually fallen in love with the area. As we spent more time there, especially over COVID, it became increasingly clear that this was the perfect place to embark on the next chapter of our lives and raise our daughters. The surrounding nature, the slower pace of life, and the community we've begun to form there are irresistible. Additionally, the escalating costs of raising a family in NYC are becoming difficult to justify unless we fully immerse ourselves in all that the city has to offer.
Herminia Ibarra's "Working Identity" was excellent - the most rigorously researched among the crop of books that came out in the 2002-2004 flourishing of books on this topic. For readers who would like something less academic and more anecdotal from that period, here are three more that stand out: "What Should I Do With My Life?" by Po Bronson (2002); "Second Acts" by Stephen Pollan and Mark Levin (2003); "Life 2.0" by Rich Karlgaard (2004). The first two are still available in paperback.
Herminia Ibarra's "Working Identity" was excellent - the most rigorously researched among the crop of books that came out in the 2002-2004 flourishing of books on this topic. For readers who would like something less academic and more anecdotal from that period, here are three more that stand out: "What Should I Do With My Life?" by Po Bronson (2002); "Second Acts" by Stephen Pollan and Mark Levin (2003); "Life 2.0" by Rich Karlgaard (2004). The first two are still available in paperback.