My life had changed in every particular.

After the trial, I had restructured everything — sold my majority stake in the Manhattan office of my firm and built instead a small boutique consultancy I could run almost entirely from home.

I no longer spent weeks at a time flying between continents.

My work now was aimed at the one thing I had learned, at enormous cost, mattered, which was being present.

I made breakfast for my wife and my son every morning.

I was home, every evening, before the sun went down.