HeyJaredThe Reinvention Journal
Writing on reinvention, side projects, and the work behind starting over.
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Everyone Sees the System. Nobody Sees the Thursday I Wanted to Quit Everything. (opens the original)
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A Thursday in February.I had a post due the next morning. I knew the topic. I’d known it for weeks — it was sitting in the plan, named, outlined, waiting. All I had to do was write it.I sat down. Opened the file. And found nothing.Not writer’s block. Emptier than that. No ideas. And worse, no want. I stared at a topic I had chosen myself, for a newsletter I had built myself, in time I had fought to protect. And I felt nothing at all.February does this to me. It’s the lowest month of my y
A Year of Reinvention - Week 39/52 (opens the original)
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Season 3: The Unfolding — Living Your TruthWhat is A Year of Reinvention?I’ve been doing Duolingo every day for over a thousand days.Not because I have to. Not because someone is checking. Not because my Spanish is getting dramatically better with each session.Five minutes a day. Sometimes ten. Occasionally more, if I have time and feel like it.
Retirement Does Not Take Your Friends. It Takes the Machine That Made Them (opens the original)
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There is a moment, usually somewhere in the first year of retirement, when you look at your phone and realize nobody has called in eleven days.Nothing is wrong. You have a spouse, maybe children, maybe grandchildren. But the steady hum of other people, the one that ran in the background of your life for forty years, has stopped.And here is the part that stings: you assume it means something about you.It does not. It means something about the building you used to walk into every morning.<a
A Year of Reinvention - Week 38/52 (opens the original)
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Season 3: The Unfolding — Living Your TruthWhat is A Year of Reinvention?When I was younger, I injured my wrist playing tennis.Not a dramatic injury. But enough to keep me off the court for months.The first few weeks, I was motivated. I’d be back soon. I’d do the physio, follow the protocol, return stronger. The injury was temporary. </st
Everyone Says Your Idea Is Great. That Is Exactly Why You Should Not Believe Them. (opens the original)
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This post is part of The Reinvention Method: practical tools for building something new without quitting everything.Discover the full Method hereLast year, I finally decided to do it. To stop thinking about an online side hustle and actually build one.But here’s my problem: I’m a person with very little time. A full-time job. Five kids.Th
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