We're running the midlife lab on ourselves so you don't have to.

Midlife arrives without a manual. Energy shifts. Identity wobbles. Old scoreboards stop making sense. Most advice is either a sales pitch or a sermon.

So Steve Pratt and Geoff Siskind — two Gen X friends — decided to run a year of public experiments on themselves. Quit drinking. Grow a beard. Fire the Oura. Try stand-up. Try ketamine therapy. Try bachata. Try things that look ridiculous and report back honestly.

Every experiment becomes a dispatch on Substack. The wins, humiliations, and surprises are all in the field reports below.