For Sale: Machine-Readable Legacy, Priced by the Terabyte.   Spirit Airlines stopped flying on May 2. Second Chapter 11 in under two years, $8.1 billion in debt, 17,000 people out of a job. The fleet went. The LaGuardia slots went to JetBlue for $58.5 million. Then Google bid $10 million …

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A September Reset for Your Masterwork. There’s something about September. The kids go back to school. The summer haze lifts. And whether we admit it or not, most of us treat it like a second January: a natural line in the sand to reset, refocus, and get serious again before …

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DOLLY PARTON: Flags at Half-Staff for the Queen of Country Flags were lowered to half-staff to honor Dolly Parton who died Tuesday, August 25, 2026, surrounded by loved ones in Nashville at age 80.  Her family announced her death at Vanderbilt-Ingram hospital after a brief battle with cancer in a …

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The Man Who Thought He Peaked at Forty. There’s a cartoon going around. A man about forty, slumped in a coffee shop, saying it out loud to a friend: I’ve already peaked. Gary Vee is sharing it. His friend puts a hand on his shoulder. Forty isn’t halftime yet. It’s …

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Dolly Parton’s Threads shows Masterwork in action: a lifetime of songs assembled, cultivated, and shared through others’ voices.

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Ascent 2: After the Hero’s Journey Ends, the Odyssey Begins. There’s a mountain graphic below that tells a story… before you climb it. The first peak is labeled Hero’s Journey, Ascent 1. Behind it, taller, sits a second peak: The Odyssey, Ascent 2. Most people spend their lives on the …

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As America celebrates its 250th year, the short history of the iconic Teddy bear inspired by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902 and the cartoon that inspired the beloved toy.

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New AI research shows traits are passed along without defining them—the same is true of the wisdom you Transmit every day, without saying one word.”

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“Between Livelihood and Legacy, That’s Masterwork,” Sherrie Rose says. The modern definition of Masterwork and the stage called the “Masterwork Years”.

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There Is No Retirement Plan for Wisdom What happens to everything you know if you don’t pass it forward? You have decades of getting good at your area of expertise. Your wisdom shines. The kind of good that only comes from years of decisions, setbacks, re-calibrations, and breakthroughs that no …

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