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Random thoughts on life lessons of a 50 year old Gen X guy.

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From Napster to ChatGPT: What Musicians Already Know About AI

Oct 5, 2025

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7 min read

From Napster to ChatGPT: What Musicians Already Know About AI

This week’s mixtape: the Napster effect, AI lessons from musicians, digital chaos, and creative control.

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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Career Change After 40 And Why Average Won’t Cut It in the AI Era

Sep 28, 2025

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5 min read

Career Change After 40 And Why Average Won’t Cut It in the AI Era

This week’s mixtape: career burnout, midlife pivots, building your own income, calming AI fears, and some Tears for Fears

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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The Five Pillars of Redefining Retirement: 2025 Gen X Retirement Planning

Aug 24, 2025

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6 min read

The Five Pillars of Redefining Retirement: 2025 Gen X Retirement Planning

This week’s mixtape: staying relevant, playing offense, a little luck and an 80s music comeback?

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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How I Broke Out Of The Wage Mindset (To Think Like An Entrepreneur)

Aug 17, 2025

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8 min read

How I Broke Out Of The Wage Mindset (To Think Like An Entrepreneur)

This week’s mixtape: the mindset shift from hourly worker to entrepreneur, building assets, showing up daily, and some Pat Benatar to get you fired up.

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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Future of Work for Gen X, Entrepreneurial Survival and AI Prompting Techniques

Jun 8, 2025

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8 min read

Future of Work for Gen X, Entrepreneurial Survival and AI Prompting Techniques

This week’s mixtape: Gen X job security, Pickaxe.ai experiments, Alice in Chains and the art of better prompting.

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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AI and Gen X: How to Combine Your Current Skills with Artificial Intelligence

Mar 30, 2025

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7 min read

AI and Gen X: How to Combine Your Current Skills with Artificial Intelligence

Use your existing skills, stay relevant after 50, and build a new path with AI (and some Bon Jovi)

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

life lessons

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Gen X Retirement Crisis? How AI Partnership Changes Everything

Mar 23, 2025

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8 min read

Gen X Retirement Crisis? How AI Partnership Changes Everything

We're Using AI All Wrong: Turn AI from Threat to Ally with This Simple Mindset Shift

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

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Mindset Matters: How One Simple Shift Changed My Career Forever

Mar 16, 2025

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7 min read

Mindset Matters: How One Simple Shift Changed My Career Forever

Harness the Power of a Growth Mindset to Escape the 9-to-5, Find Fulfillment, and Build Lasting Success

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

life lessons

Why Didn’t We Do This Earlier?

Dec 3, 2023

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4 min read

Why Didn’t We Do This Earlier?

Eggs, Elders, and Enlightenment: Tales from a Grocery Store Eatery

Corey Koehler
Corey Koehler

Redefining Retirement

Too young to retire? Too old for the Rat Race? Let's work on that. Join Gen X solopreneurs, creators, and side-hustlers getting the weekly mixtape of AI info, self-marketing, and motivation to stay relevant, make some cash, and create a lifestyle you won’t want to retire from.

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