Alistair Knox

As the world continues to change and technology reshapes our lives, the stories we use to navigate life become outdated and come up short. People are starting to feel the disconnect between what we’ve been told about how the world works and what they experience. You work hard, but get laid off anyway. You have the perfect life on paper, but no time

some of the most painful times of my life were when I was unfulfilled in my work, when I was not applying my gifts toward a purpose I believed in. I remember quite well a meeting with a software company in Taiwan, where I worked as a translator and business consultant in my twenties. We were discussing some new technology, 3D sound or something lik

when my experience can no longer be expected to deliver me into socially affirmed norms, I’m struck with a sense that I’m old. I’m of the past because my experience no longer helps me anticipate how to be in the world.

My reason for making the transition was very simple. It wasn’t about money. I was making good money in corporate InfoSec. No. I just had to get away from corporate jobs where one or more of these were true:

• Leadership didn’t know what they wanted

• They knew what they wanted but couldn’t articulate it

• They could articulate it, but couldn’t execute