It takes exactly eight minutes to warm a bottle of homo
(3.5%) milk. Young parents have a whole
new set of stresses to deal with but also a whole range of new assisting
technology available too. Automatic
bottle warmers, network enabled video monitoring, and Internet help forums are
only a few of the things I had wish I had twenty years ago. On the other hand,
Internet bullies, social network predators, and infinite access to global
information make guidance and parenting much more difficult.
School is overrated. When I entered my first round of
post-secondary education nearly thirty years ago (*cringe*) the accepted and
proven way to get ahead was to 1) get a degree, 2) get a good job with it and
then 3) earn your way to the top through promotions in the classic way. Boomers institutionalized that process, gen x
accepted it, gen y rebelled against it and Millennials just bulldoze past
it. Today, the Internet and all its
connected facilities make it possible for bright young entrepreneurs to bypass
that old process. They get an idea, then
learn it, master it, and build a business out of it… often while they are still
in high school. The number of C-level
executives in their twenties is impressive.
Note to Boomers and Gen X… the rules have changed.
It’s always a good day for a tutu. Seriously, life is too
short to fill it with unfulfilling activities and stress. Play.
Enjoy. Revel in life. Work does not have to be boring and oppressive.
The most productive and successful people I know do not see their work as ‘work'
at all. When making a living is
consuming your entire life, it is time for a change.
Power is shifting. There is a global revolution going on through
several fronts. The planet’s youth are all connected in spite of the
establishment efforts to control communications. The Internet cannot be contained – that ship
has sailed, genie is out of the bottle.
Citizens in Beijing and London and Toronto and Kiev and Cape Town can share
ideas, form alliances, and rebel in amazingly coordinated ways. When companies do bad things they are no
longer buried by corrupt media and governments.
The information is in the blogosphere within seconds and replicated
instantly. World governments, you no
longer control the masses. Individuals
now have all the information, and information is power.
I’m only dancing.
Entire concepts of relationships have been shattered and re-imagined.
You could put all kinds of labels on it but the fact is that labels are
irrelevant to most of the twenty-something people I know. They are much more focused on the concept of
loving who you love and ignoring what the rest of the world wants to call it. That level of free and open respect may take
a while to catch on, but it is here and it is real.
The world is tiny and your friends are only a click
away. I thought I was progressive when I
knew I had several on-line friends in other countries. That is now old news. Your teen aged children and a whole
generation of ‘Millennials’ have friends all over the globe and don’t even know
where they actually live. Country
borders are irrelevant and there is no real difference between on-line and
off-line friends.
Those are the highlights as I ramble out a stream of consciousness. They may seem like random and disjointed
thoughts but that is the other thing I have discovered… information happens in
blobs, not streams.
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