There’s a myth that career growth is a young person’s game, that if you haven’t made your big move by thirty, you’ve somehow missed the window. It’s not true, and it’s not even close. What actually changes decade to decade isn’t whether you can grow, it’s what growth looks like. Your thirties reward a different…
Making friends used to be automatic. School put you in a room with the same thirty people for years, and something worked itself out. Then adulthood happens, and suddenly you have to actually try, plan things, follow up, show up when it would be easier not to. A lot of people quietly let that muscle…