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Brian Clark

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Writer, traveler, entrepreneur. Chilling on Panama's Pacific Riviera. Former projects acquired: Copyblogger, Rainmaker, StudioPress. further.net

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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 27/08/2026
Amazing fact: Dolly Parton wrote “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” in one day. The same day.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 25/08/2026
RIP Dolly Parton 😕
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 27/07/2026
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 07/07/2026
Hello from Copenhagen! If you’ve just finished up The Bear, you’ll be happy to know this is the houseboat Marcus stayed on when he visited the city in season 2. And yes, it’s available for rent on Airbnb.
Houseboat in Copenhagen featured in The Bear.Houseboat in Copenhagen featured in The Bear.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 29/06/2026
Greetings from the Scottish Highlands.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 08/06/2026
Saw Bob Mould and the reunited SUGAR at the Barrowland in Glasgow. Still one of the loudest shows you'll encounter.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 13/05/2026
Forget Paris, springtime in Grenoble is divine.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 26/03/2026
Saw The Killers in Costa Rica last night. It was more of a revival than a concert. Like going to church in the best way. Still not over it.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 25/03/2026
532,000 Americans started new businesses in January alone, a 36.8% increase from the previous year. And according to the Wall Street Journal, 150,000 Americans left the country entirely in 2025, which is the first net negative migration since the Great Depression. Let’s connect those dots.
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The Layoffs Are Coming. Here's What 50+ Professionals Are Doing About It.
Slowing growth plus rising inflation equals stagflation. Corporate's response is predictable: When margins compress, they eliminate their most expensive employees first.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 17/03/2026
Starting a movement is hard. Joining one is easy, especially for digital entrepreneurs who pay attention to the purpose-driven currents that lead to movements in the first place. news.further.net/p/movements-...
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Movements: My Secret to Starting Multiple Seven-Figure Businesses
Look for winning business ideas and content strategies where you consider the status quo to be less than optimal or just flat-out wrong.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 17/02/2026
What if I told you that the most profitable solo companies aren’t solo at all? The implication (and possible downside) is that you’re on your own. But that’s not quite right. And that’s because the most powerful solo companies don’t operate in isolation. They collaborate.
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The Profitable Power of a Sovereign Collective
Artificial intelligence doesn’t eliminate the value of human partners, but it does change the equation.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 08/02/2026
Hilarious. What do they think Holiday and American Idiot are about?
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Green Day avoids making political statement during Super Bowl 2026 opening performance
Green Day performed during the opening ceremony that celebrated generations of Super Bowl MVPs.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 29/01/2026
Big companies need fewer people to succeed. This reality will only accelerate. The twin dynamics of AI and ageism make Gen X especially expendable. The flip side: You can start tiny, highly profitable companies that let you earn everywhere and live anywhere. Same force. Different outcome.
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Small Is the New Big
As the most entrepreneurial generation, we are the most qualified to start solo and small companies. And unlike traditional employment, no one can tell us we can’t do it.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 25/01/2026
The first NFL game I took my then 10-year-old son to, Broncos beat the Patriots in overtime. That kid has been an unstoppable good luck charm at live sporting events ever since.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Minnesota is the best of us.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 18/01/2026
Broncos win!
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 18/01/2026
The Broncos are trying to kill me.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 06/01/2026
You gave your best decades to companies that are making decisions about your economic viability without your input or regard for your well-being. You can’t control when they hire you, when they eliminate you, or whether other management will think differently about you.
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How Generation X Lost Control of Both Work and Home
You have a voice, but not agency. And a voice without the ability to effect change is just performance.
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Manolo @milehighmanolo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Avalanche won #GoAvsGo Broncos won #GoBroncos Nuggets win #MileHighBasketball
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a man is driving a green car with the words today was a good day on the bottom .
ALT: a man is driving a green car with the words today was a good day on the bottom .
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 04/12/2025
Here’s the mistake most people make when they try to change: * They follow the guru’s playbook. * They copy someone else’s success story. * They adopt the strategies of a prominent entrepreneur or bestselling author. And they fail or burn out. Because that person’s genre is different from yours.
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Winning in Your Genre: A Midlife Story That Fits Your Temperament
One-third of your personality is determined by genetics, and you shouldn’t fight it. Don’t write a romance story when you're built for mystery novels.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 24/11/2025
Your values are shifting. The world is changing faster than ever. And your brain is still operating on 10,000-year-old survival software that has no idea what’s going on. This third article of the Midlife Remix series will help you understand why change isn’t just possible; it’s necessary.
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Remix vs. Remaster: Choose Your Own Midlife Reinvention
Change isn't just possible; it's necessary. Here's how to decide what kind of change your life actually needs.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 21/11/2025
A timeless classic no matter how you play it.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 10/11/2025
Are you excited about changing your story at midlife? Hopefully so. But you also may be thinking about the last time you tried to make a significant change. And you’re remembering that it felt difficult, bordering on impossible.
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What's Fixed and What's Flexible: The Architecture of Your Midlife Story
This second article in the Midlife Identity Remix series will help you understand yourself in a new way. And that will clear the path toward meaningful change.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 27/10/2025
That discontent and restlessness you’re feeling? That’s not a malfunction. That’s your brain finally recognizing the current story needs change. This isn’t a midlife crisis. It’s a midlife plot twist.
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Midlife Isn't a Crisis, It's a Plot Twist
You open the door to the midlife plot twist when you realize you can now be the sole author of your story.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 17/10/2025
RIP Ace Frehley. You were always the coolest guy in KISS.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 25/09/2025
If you're between 45 and 65, you’ve likely realized the game has changed. The old playbook (get good grades, climb the ladder, retire at 65) is broken. The new reality requires new strategies. Time to rewrite the script. Or if you prefer, adopt a new playbook.
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It’s Time to Burn the Old Playbook
Your job security is an illusion at a point when you can least afford to lose your income.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 16/09/2025
People who take in more negative age beliefs tend to show worse physical, cognitive, and mental health. But the good news is that those who are exposed to or develop more positive age beliefs tend to show benefits in physical, cognitive, and mental health.
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You Only Get “Old” When You Believe These Myths About Aging
Here’s a sampling of seven counterintuitive facts about getting older.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 05/09/2025
We all remember the advice from Dead Poets Society: "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." Now that we’re at midlife, here's an alternative Latin phrase for Generation X: Carpe vitam. Seize your life.
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Carpe Vitam: The Time for Your Midlife Reinvention is Now
This life is not a dress rehearsal.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 03/09/2025
Beginning of our third month in Baja Sur, first hurricane. Just steady rain so far, which is actually nice. On generator power at the beach.
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Lorena becomes a hurricane off west coast of Mexico as Kiko travels over open waters
Hurricane Lorena has formed off the coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula
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Denver Nuggets @nuggets.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Jok is just too good at these heaves 😮‍💨 Cracked NBA’s top 20 plays
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 29/08/2025
We don’t have to look into the future of medical age-reversal treatments to see a great divide in longevity rates. It’s happening in the United States right now. The key is to take a closer look at how “life expectancy” is determined, while also challenging the notion of a “United” States.
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The Longevity Divide for Midlife Americans
Why does life expectancy in the United States lag behind other wealthy countries?
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 22/08/2025
Being in the U.S. is like swimming in a soup of anger, anxiety, and aggravation. It permeates the entire experience of living as if it’s normal. That doesn’t exist here in Baja Sur, and it doesn’t exist in any of the other places I’ve lived for extended periods.
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The New American Dream
There's now an evolved concept of living the dream. Unfortunately, too many accept the "new nightmare" as normal.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 13/08/2025
Picture this: Your boss just called you into their office. You’re not being laid off, but your role will now be as an independent contractor instead of a W-2 employee. Would you view it as a loss or the opportunity of a lifetime?
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Are You About to Be “Promoted” to Independent Contractor?
Your company wants you to do the same job for less security, but what if that's exactly what you need?
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 05/08/2025
Medical advances and lifestyle changes have already blessed Baby Boomers with longer, healthier lives, and this is now creating an unintended consequence: They're squeezing Generation X out of the executive suite.
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The Paradox Blocking Gen X Career Advancement
The Wall Street Journal reveals how our “forgotten” position between Boomers and Millennials is wrecking our employment prospects.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 31/07/2025
What’s behind the surge in people ditching traditional employment and heading out on their own? Other than Corporate America’s propensity to hire you when it’s convenient and dump you when it’s profitable, of course. We all know that part.
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The Inevitable Rise of the Independent Workforce
Being independent is now a sign of status. Being location-independent has even more status.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 28/07/2025
What did I tell you?
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 23/07/2025
On one hand, no shit. On the other, the WSJ and Murdoch are not messing around. They want him gone.
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Exclusive | Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files
Attorney General Pam Bondi told the president that the department also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victim...
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 23/07/2025
Doing challenging new things improves your cognitive functioning, as long as it pushes your abilities. Learning another language, in particular, keeps the brain in optimum condition by providing tools to decrease memory loss and increase neurological regeneration.
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Why You Should Insist on Learning a New Language
You shouldn’t let learning a new language keep you from considering a non-English-speaking country as your new home base.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 22/07/2025
RIP Ozzy Osbourne. You lived a crazy full life despite the odds.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 17/07/2025
At midlife, you’re likely sitting on a goldmine of expertise that can be used to start a location-independent business. Or perhaps you want to become an expert in an entirely different domain as the basis of your business. What if I told you that the key to doing either one is the same?
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The Surprising Expertise Accelerator that Powers Your Business
This works to enhance existing expertise, or to develop new expertise in any topic of your choice.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 11/07/2025
You need some innovative, sexy idea to start a business, right? No, all you need is a solution to a problem that people will pay for. Most people at midlife are sitting on a goldmine and don't even know it.
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Start Here to Create a Location-Independent Business at Midlife
Let's uncover your hidden expertise using just three questions.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 03/07/2025
With increases in lifespan and healthspan, very few can afford retirement at 65 while living into their late 80s, 90s, and beyond.
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Escape The “Longevity Squeeze” by Leveraging Your Expertise
Your accumulated expertise, professional networks, and life experience aren't consolation prizes for getting older.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 12/06/2025
On May 30, 2025, we closed the sale of our home in Boulder. In the three weeks prior, we had gifted or sold all our furniture. We cleaned out a horrendous amount of accumulated crap. And then we hopped on a plane to Baja Sur to lock down a place to live for the rest of the year.
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The Adventure Begins…
You are the author of your next chapter.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 06/06/2025
Everywhere you look, people are labeling yet another country as the “next Portugal.” But what if the next Portugal for you is… Portugal?
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The Complete Guide to Portugal Residency Visas for 2025
Everywhere you look, people are labeling yet another country as the “next Portugal.” But what if the next Portugal for you is… Portugal? The country that some refer to as “Little California” remains o...
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 05/06/2025
Picture this: You're answering emails while sipping locally-grown coffee on your terrace, surrounded by mist-covered mountains and the kind of silence that lets you actually think. Just you, your laptop, and a view that stretches to both the Pacific and Caribbean on clear days.
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Sorá, Panama: Why This Ancient Mountain Settlement Could Be Your Next Home Base
Picture this: You’re answering emails while sipping locally-grown coffee on your terrace, surrounded by mist-covered mountains and the kind of silence that actually lets you think. No traffic. No cons...
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 04/06/2025
As you enter your 50s, you no longer feel compelled to dance to society's soundtrack. You start to tune out the sound of so-called success that's been in your ears since you were young, and instead define success in terms that make sense for yourself.
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Are You Dancing to Society’s Soundtrack?
It's now time to start composing your greatest work.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 27/05/2025
People want independence from the unreasonable constraints and control of traditional employment. More and more people are claiming that independence.
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Why Millions Are Saying No to a J.O.B.
People want independence from the unreasonable constraints and control of traditional employment.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 23/05/2025
People aged fifty and over already account for more than half of consumer spending in the United States and 83% of household wealth, with both numbers expected to increase significantly. And odds are you’ll be attempting to convince an older female consumer.
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Rise of the Matriarchy: Why Gen X Women Will Take the Lead
The implications of a shift toward more power for midlife women are fairly profound.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 18/05/2025
It's gonna take a miracle for the Nuggets to win in OKC without Aaron Gordon, but I'm happy that everyone now knows how important that guy is.
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Brian Clark @brianclark.social · 15/05/2025
20 years ago last Friday, they wheeled me in for emergency surgery, and I said goodbye to my wife, not quite three-year-old daughter, and newborn son. I knew that sometimes people don’t wake up from brain surgery, and this might be the last time I saw them.
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The Snowboard, the Subdural Hematoma, and the Secret of Life
The two nasty words that can hold you back from the life you want.
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