You’re Not Supposed to Live Like This?

Hello, world.

I’m an unemployed former Big Tech software engineer with 25 years of experience in the technology industry.

And one of the strangest things about early retirement is discovering something I never seemed to have enough of while working:

time.

Free time gives you the opportunity to notice things you were too busy to notice before.

And once I slowed down, I started thinking about a paradox that I find increasingly difficult to ignore.

The Good Life Paradox

Look at the news. Scroll through social media. Listen to people talk about their lives.

It seems like we’re living through crisis after crisis.

A cost-of-living crisis.

A loneliness crisis.

A mental-health crisis.