Dear Colin, After eight difficult, grueling years of overpriced school and unfulfillment, I am about to graduate next month with a doctorate in pharmacy. The doctorate is meaningless to me and I’m not even proud of going down this path.…
I am finally back home in Florida after 18 months of living and working in Shanghai and Bangkok. Now that I am home, I am feeling out of place here, not unlike the feeling I had overseas. I am not…
I’m often asked where I envision myself, my career, my life in five years. But I don’t have a good answer for this. Looking back five years, I was in a very different place from where I am today. My lifestyle,…
Colin, Most of my twenties have been spent in a relationship of one kind or another, none of which have lead to fulfillment. For the first time in a long time I have enjoyed being single, though I face occasional…
Dear Colin, Sigh. Big Sigh. I feel like the worst kind of person, and I’m searching everywhere for signs that I don’t have to feel guilty. I have asked my husband for a divorce. And the hard thing is, most…
As a long time listener of your podcast, I’ve found (too) many interesting books to read as result of your suggestions. I understand that video games aren’t completely alien form of media to you either, and I’m wondering if there…
Hey Colin, I am from Mumbai, India and I will be finishing my masters in two months. My dream has always been to get a good job in the west. I intend to move to Europe or the States to…
Hi Colin, My husband got a job in another city, and I am tied to our current city professionally as I am in the midst of taking over my family’s art business, which I feel is my mission in life…
It’s not always easy to tell if the work you do, the way you spend your time, is a net value-add for the world. Part of the difficulty is that most types of potential value and anti-value are measured using…
Dear Colin, I am at a point in my life where many of my friends are getting married, having kids, settling in to a career. I am very much the opposite (or at the least, different): I am an artist,…