Great piece of thinking. I particularly aligned behind Scott Galloway's line "protecting the previous generation of winners, even if it means reducing future generations’ ability to win" - A true distillation to the essence of how I see the inter generational promises being broken. I sit between the boomers and the millennial's. Often trying to convince my boomer friends that the next generations need a fairer chance to succeed. Unfortunately, Boomers do not see the vast array of social, policy and economic drawbridges that were drawn up after themselves.
Thanks Neil ... personally I am not a fan of arbitrary generational segregation like Boomers, Xers etc - - but I do get your point. In some ways - same as it ever was ... everybody on the outside wants to change the rules on the inside - but once on the inside - somehow that gets forgotten.
That said I do like to point out that It is definitely true in the tech industry that BOOMERS created 'open' things like TCP/IP, the Internet, the web, email and, and and noting that those giants that did that - are not the rich multi-millionaires that run the tech giants. AND a lot of those tech giants that are causing the world problems with their closed, silo thinking putting money first and well ahead of creating a fair and balanced world are often run by MILLENIALS ... #justsayin :-)
Nice post. Sparks thought on the energy and capacity to reflect on the alternative models and possibilities. Helping people get into the mental and physical spaces to do that well. Seems the energy and capacity is being sucked up with the wasteful efforts today. Interpret wasteful in any way you see fit.
Great piece of thinking. I particularly aligned behind Scott Galloway's line "protecting the previous generation of winners, even if it means reducing future generations’ ability to win" - A true distillation to the essence of how I see the inter generational promises being broken. I sit between the boomers and the millennial's. Often trying to convince my boomer friends that the next generations need a fairer chance to succeed. Unfortunately, Boomers do not see the vast array of social, policy and economic drawbridges that were drawn up after themselves.
Thanks Neil ... personally I am not a fan of arbitrary generational segregation like Boomers, Xers etc - - but I do get your point. In some ways - same as it ever was ... everybody on the outside wants to change the rules on the inside - but once on the inside - somehow that gets forgotten.
That said I do like to point out that It is definitely true in the tech industry that BOOMERS created 'open' things like TCP/IP, the Internet, the web, email and, and and noting that those giants that did that - are not the rich multi-millionaires that run the tech giants. AND a lot of those tech giants that are causing the world problems with their closed, silo thinking putting money first and well ahead of creating a fair and balanced world are often run by MILLENIALS ... #justsayin :-)
Nice post. Sparks thought on the energy and capacity to reflect on the alternative models and possibilities. Helping people get into the mental and physical spaces to do that well. Seems the energy and capacity is being sucked up with the wasteful efforts today. Interpret wasteful in any way you see fit.
Thanks Daniel - got your email - glad to see activity on the newsletter itself.