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Surveys of older adults consistently surface a quiet pattern: people who spent decades building lives around providing, caregiving, and obligation often report difficulty naming what they actually enjoy once those roles loosen.
It seems like there's a story being told in just about every workplace right now.
The image is by now so familiar it feels like fact.
I drove to my parents' house last summer for a long weekend, and somewhere on the second day I noticed something I'd been not-noticing for about thirty years.
I want to tell you about a specific Sunday in 2018, in my parents' kitchen in London.
When people talk about the gulf between adult children and their boomer parents, they usually frame it as a story about cruelty, or coldness, or some failure of empathy on one side or the other.
There's a particular look that passes between people in a café when one person orders a black coffee and the other orders an oat milk vanilla latte.
We have been listening, lately, to people in their first year or two out of the workforce.
The cousin called on a Tuesday.
I have noticed, over a long time, that there is a twenty-minute limit on the kind of conversation I can have alone in a room with my father.
I had a friend in New York, years ago, who was certain about everything.
For most of the last century, the story of automation went something like this.
