Photo by Jan Canty on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. On Thursday, September 5, I received an email from Microsoft, stating: “Thanks for your order on September 4, 2024.” The billing statement showed that I had purchased Microsoft 365 Business Standard […]
No. 65/September 25, 2024 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Most Retirees Are Okay Financially Despite the persistent drumbeat of scary stories declaring that workers are not saving enough for a secure retirement, 86% in a Federal Reserve survey […]
Photo by Torsten Dederichs on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. At 7:45 a.m. there is a knock at the front door, just as there has been every weekday morning for five weeks. Still wearing a t-shirt and running shorts, I open […]
Photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. My heartfelt thanks to the New York Times for bringing to my attention one more damned health condition to worry about in my dotage. As if weakening eyesight, questionable […]
No. 64/September 11, 2024 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Maybe You Don’t Need That Statin More than 92 million Americans take statin drugs to lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. Doctors who prescribe […]
Photo by Patrick Marah on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. My memory has a negative bias. Maybe your memory isn’t wired this way, but whenever I have occasion to look back at my life, I find it easy to recall my […]
Photo by Unsplash+ in collaboration with Curated Lifestyle The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. My wife and I have been talking about how to handle our final resting places. Not with our friends, of course. The surest way to clear […]
No. 63/August 28, 2024 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Aging Occurs in Great Leaps A study published this year has found that humans age – at the molecular level – in two great bursts, one at age […]
Photo by Alisha Hieb on Unsplash As a former vice president of the United States once remarked to the United Negro College Fund, “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.” For many years, the conventional wisdom was that, with rare exceptions, losing one’s […]
Photo by Aleksei Sabulevskii on Unsplash Earlier this summer a tropical depression visited my hometown, and another kind of depression visited me. Spoiler alert: I’m over it now. When depression has me in its grip, it is not possible to write. It is not even possible to lift a pencil. I have no energy, no motivation, no hope. […]
