Games of two halves

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We have more choices to make than ever we have had. Who to associate with, what to watch, who to listen to, what to believe. With just about every source highly monetised, it has become rather like trying to drink from a fire hydrant. Even journals that I used to buy for expertise and impartial opinion have fallen prey. Opening them exposes me to shouty advertisements for expensive trivia apparently fitting to my "status", and articles that are thinly disguised marketing channels. /and then there's social media....

In our lives and businesses, events generally fall into two parts - a period when we establish ourselves, find security and our place in the world and a second part, where we use what we have learned to help those still in their first half. Even Jeff Bezos has stepped back. It's an important decision. In the first half, people behind us not only catch up quickly, they have more current knowledge. By the time we're forty they're level, and by fi…