@Stella Fosse - I just came across your profile on LinkedIn and just had to connect with you there & look you up on SubStack. The piece that caught my attention there was that you left Biotech and never looked back. I was just included one of the many mass layoffs at the global bio / pharma tech corporation where I worked. I’m 60. Probably unlikely to find a similar job due to my age, but I don’t ever want to work for such a corporation without proper values again.
That said, I don’t feel finished. I have a lot to say & want to explore writing.
Your posts on social media are truly inspirational.
Yes, yes, and yes. Too often people only see the losses and perspective, if acknowledged at all, is a poor substitution. However, perspective, the kissing cousin of wisdom is what matters more than anything.
The paradox you name — more perspective but less energy, more time in the day but less time in years — is one that I find very few people articulate honestly, because the conversation tends to collapse into either relentless optimism or quiet despair, and the truth sits somewhere more interesting than either. The image of transforming the richness of accumulated experience into something new, like roses on a compost pile, is one I will be returning to. What do you think changes most fundamentally in the creative work itself as the balance of losses and gains shifts?
@Stella Fosse - I just came across your profile on LinkedIn and just had to connect with you there & look you up on SubStack. The piece that caught my attention there was that you left Biotech and never looked back. I was just included one of the many mass layoffs at the global bio / pharma tech corporation where I worked. I’m 60. Probably unlikely to find a similar job due to my age, but I don’t ever want to work for such a corporation without proper values again.
That said, I don’t feel finished. I have a lot to say & want to explore writing.
Your posts on social media are truly inspirational.
Thank you so much for your work.
How fabulous, Linda! Welcome to the dessert course of life!
Yes, yes, and yes. Too often people only see the losses and perspective, if acknowledged at all, is a poor substitution. However, perspective, the kissing cousin of wisdom is what matters more than anything.
"Perspective, the kissing cousin of wisdom" -- Yes! Love it.
Love everything you say.....
The paradox you name — more perspective but less energy, more time in the day but less time in years — is one that I find very few people articulate honestly, because the conversation tends to collapse into either relentless optimism or quiet despair, and the truth sits somewhere more interesting than either. The image of transforming the richness of accumulated experience into something new, like roses on a compost pile, is one I will be returning to. What do you think changes most fundamentally in the creative work itself as the balance of losses and gains shifts?
Will need to ponder… great question!
So beautifully said — and I needed this today. Thank you.
Thanks Jan!
And I just listened to your Crow's Feet podcast episode — chef's kiss!