Hi, I’m Rachel Singh.

Applied Anthropologist and Founder of Shore Road.

The idea for Two More Years came to me while I was working at Amazon. One afternoon after lunch, I stepped out of the elevator onto the third floor of my building to find it strangely deserted. There was a fire drill underway, although I hadn't realized it. As I made my way through the empty office, something stopped me in my tracks. Sitting on a table was a box of doughnuts celebrating someone's second anniversary at Amazon. Resting on top was a Post-it note that read:

“-Two years down-. #2MOREYEARS.”

At Amazon, four years was a significant milestone. It was when your initial stock grant would be fully vested. For many people, it was a date on the horizon, a point at which they might finally have the freedom to do something different. And there it was, written on a Post-it note, complete with a little heart. Two years down. Two more to go.

It struck me how many of us were counting down to some imagined future when life might finally be different. But how little time we seemed to spend thinking about what that future might actually look like, let alone preparing for it. About the bargains we make with ourselves. The things we put off. And how easily the life we're planning to live becomes the life we're waiting to live.

There's always a reason to wait. And often, they're very good reasons. But here's the thing about two years: They have a habit of becoming another two years. And all the while, we're living our lives.

I eventually left that chapter of my career and began asking some different questions. Not simply what I wanted to do next, but how I'd arrived where I was, what I had been organizing my life around, and what else might be possible. I had been thinking about that post-it note a lot. And somewhere along the way, I began to recognise my own version of two more years.

For more than twenty years, I'd worked as an ethnographer in industry, studying how people navigate their lives, how organizations shape their choices, and why change can be so difficult, even when people genuinely want it. It occurred to me that I could bring that same curiosity and investigative approach to understanding my own life. And perhaps help other people do the same because I have also come to realize that almost everyone has their own version of "two more years."

That's where Two More Years comes from. It's not about quitting your job, throwing everything away, or reinventing yourself overnight. It's about taking a closer look at the life you're actually living. Understanding what's working, what isn't, and what might be keeping you in place. Exploring possibilities rather than assuming you already know the answers. And making small, deliberate experiments to discover what could be different.

Because the question isn't really what you'll do in two more years: It's what you might begin doing now.