The Old Grey Thinker
Reporting back from the extra years nobody prepared us for. Free guides and daily essays about the second act, when the instructions have vanished. Paid subscribers get the deep dives — about a tea a month. No gurus. No hustle. Tea. Obviously.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 566 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 13 hours ago |
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At 68, People Keep Asking How I Find Ideas and Stay Organised, So I Finally Wrote It All Down
The Creator Studio is here.
I get asked the same three questions more than any others. How do you come up with ideas?
How do you stay organised?
And how do you keep doing it week after week without going round the bend?
I have been gi...
Why My Real Life Has Been Starting Next Month for Forty Years
On a sticky note, a piano that doesn't exist, and the Later that finally turned up
On the last evening of every month I perform a small ceremony at the kitchen table.
What Happens to the Man the Job No Longer Needs
On the competent, decisive man the job built, and where he goes once the job has gone
There are eleven trowels in the garden centre on the ring road.
The Invisible Retirement Fund I Didn't Know I Was Spending
Curiosity, caravans, and the account that never sends a statement
I wish good essays could buy my Yorkshire Tea
Not Every Boomer Is Rich, and We're Tired of Being Sent the Bill
On butter, buses, and two armies shelling the same muddy field
In the supermarket on Monday a man in a good wool coat picked up a block of butter, looked at the price, looked at it again as though it might have been a misprint, and put it...
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Retired Master Mariner. Fifty years telling ships where to go. Writing about retirement, ageing, and the strange experience of becoming invisible. One essay drew 98,000 readers because people kept sending it to someone who needed it. Tea mandatory.
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