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Gregory Sloane

Architect · The Intentional Years
Practical guides for designing the second half of life. For systems thinkers, professionals, and introverts who deserve better than platitudes.
ABOUT

Life after fifty is a design problem, not a tragedy.

Gregory Sloane spent thirty years inside the systems most of us build our lives around: organizations, institutions, complex operations that only work when someone has thought carefully about how the parts connect. He came to writing late, after realizing that the second half of life is the most consequential design project most people will ever face, and that almost nobody treats it as one.

His readers are systems thinkers, professionals, and introverts who are systematically underserved by books that tell them to ‘embrace the journey’ or ‘find their tribe.’ Sloane treats that reader as a peer. He does not tell them what to think. He builds infrastructure and lets them decide.

His prose is architecturally precise: named frameworks, implementation protocols, concrete tools. Every chapter ends with a Minimum Viable System, the smallest version of the framework that still works, for the reader who is overwhelmed and needs one thing to do today.

THE SERIES
The Intentional Years
by Gregory Sloane
Life after fifty is a design problem, not a tragedy. Gregory Sloane writes for systems thinkers, professionals, and introverts who are systematically underserved by the existing later-life literature. His books replace platitudes with named frameworks, implementation protocols, and concrete tools. Every chapter ends with a Minimum Viable System: the smallest version of the framework that still works, for the reader who needs one thing to do today.
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No One Is Coming

A Practical Guide for Solo Agers to Build Support Systems for Aging Well Alone

A practical guide for adults over fifty to build the support systems nobody else will. For solo agers, single adults, and anyone who realises that self-reliance requires infrastructure.

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Home for Good

A Practical Guide for Homeowners to Build the Systems for Aging Safely at Home

A practical guide for homeowners over fifty to build the systems for aging safely at home. Stay, move, downsize, or redesign: a structured decision framework.

Further titles in The Intentional Years are in development. Each follows the same architecture: named
frameworks, implementation protocols, and a Minimum Viable System in every chapter.

He does not tell readers what to think. He builds infrastructure and lets them decide.

GREGORY SLOANE

The Intentional Years is published by Nova Ars Vivendi, an independent publisher of practical non-fiction for people who take their lives seriously enough to design them.

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