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The Question I Stopped Asking Myself — The Silver Geek Blog The Silver Geek · Late-Life Parenting · blog.silver-geek.com The Question I Stopped Asking Myself A story from The Silver Geek Affiliate disclosure: This post may contain Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Full disclosure here . For the first year, there was a question that ran on a loop in the back of my mind, usually somewhere around 2am: "Am I doing this right?" Not in a spiraling way, exactly. More like a background process that never fully shut down. Thirty years of performance reviews and quarterly targets will do that to a person — you get used to measuring yourself against something. The problem was there was no scorecard for this. No quarterly review. Just a small person who needed feeding, holding, and occasionally a diaper change at the worst possible moment, and me, standing th...

The Spreadsheet That Runs My Whole Content Calendar — The Silver Geek Blog The Silver Geek · Tech Tips & Creator Life · blog.silver-geek.com The Spreadsheet That Runs My Whole Content Calendar A story from The Silver Geek Affiliate disclosure: This post may contain Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Full disclosure here . For the first few months of this, every Sunday looked the same: staring at a blank page around 8pm, trying to remember what I'd already posted about, what platform needed what, and whether I'd repeated myself three weeks running without noticing. Thirty years managing other people's workflows, and I hadn't built one for my own. The fix wasn't a fancy app. It was the most boring tool in existence — a spreadsheet, three columns wide, that I update in about ninety seconds after I publish anything. Topic pillar, title, a...

The Five Minutes That Used to Ruin My Whole Morning — The Silver Geek Blog The Silver Geek · AI for Real Humans · blog.silver-geek.com The Five Minutes That Used to Ruin My Whole Morning A story from The Silver Geek Affiliate disclosure: This post may contain Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Full disclosure here . There's a specific kind of morning that used to wreck everything before 9am: three separate messages waiting — one from a client, one from a vendor, one from someone I hadn't talked to in months — and every single one of them needed a different tone. Professional but warm. Firm but polite. Friendly but not overly familiar. I'd sit there rewriting the same two sentences four times, and by the time I'd sent all three, I'd used up the mental energy I needed for the actual work of the day. I finally got tired of it and started doi...

The First Time I Forgot How Old I Was — The Silver Geek Blog The Silver Geek · Late-Life Parenting · blog.silver-geek.com The First Time I Forgot How Old I Was A story from The Silver Geek Affiliate disclosure: This post may contain Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Full disclosure here . I was on the living room floor, flat on my back, holding a plastic dinosaur above my head like it was flying, making sound effects I hadn't made since I was maybe eight years old myself. My knees were complaining. My back would send me a bill for this later. And I genuinely, completely forgot how old I was — for probably a solid twenty minutes. It caught me off guard when it ended. I sat up, felt my knees remind me they exist, and thought: I haven't felt like that in decades. Not the dinosaur noises specifically. The forgetting. The Number Follows You Everywher...