Starting over at forty
Theo Marsh returns for the rest of the story: leaving the law, giving the money back for his first chair, and starting on a…
Episodes
8 episodes
The sound of a room
Acoustic designer Ines Okafor on why some rooms feel calm and others exhausting, and how a rug and a bookshelf can change your home.
Forty hives and a laptop
A bonus conversation with Sol Bergman, who left payment software for beekeeping and still writes code, mostly for the bees.
Writing in the margins
Novelist Rosa Lind wrote three books before breakfast. She shares the habit, the train she can’t miss, and why you should finish badly.
Letters you can hear
Type designer Jun Park on the voice of letters, and why every typeface has an accent.
A kitchen with no menu
Chef Amara Reyes runs a twelve-seat restaurant where the morning market decides what’s for dinner.
The slow apprenticeship
Theo Marsh on learning woodwork in his thirties, and why the first hundred hours are the most honest.
Why the long way?
Maya on leaving a tidy career path, and why the most interesting people she knows took the scenic route.
