Dave Evans

Gee, it isn't as much, it wasn't as cool as I thought it would be, or I'm kind of done with this job, or I need to pivot.

Now what?

Now what?

And I haven't thought about that in a long time, and I don't have any framework for thinking about it.

And I've been doing work with folks who are retiring, you know, in their 50s, 60s, or folks that are, you know, suddenly empty nesters.

And they're like, well, geez, I organized my whole life, my wife and I are empty nesters, organized my whole life around my kids.

And now it's just me and my wife, like, do we even know each other?

Do we even like each other anymore?

What are we going to do?

So this question just keeps coming up and it's about, will my life, will my future be meaningful?

Can I find something to do that has got some purpose in it?

And a lot of the structures of that, it used to be, well, you had a community, everybody grew up in the same town.

And so you knew where you fit in, or maybe you had a faith community or a church or something.

And a lot of those communities have gone away.

There's this huge loneliness.

People really feel isolated and lonely.

And things are changing so fast, right?

That they don't know where to turn for even a way to get started.

Imagine this.

We have this linear accelerator at Stanford.