Is youth being overdone in our culture?

Why is that there such a disproportionate focus on youth in our culture? I think experience and being wise is cooler and more attractive. So much emphasis on Y could become silly.

Believe it or not everybody is aging.

The Age of the Wise

Everybody is getting older, believe it or not. The difference this time around is that the amount of people getting older at the time is pretty significant at a global scale. It is a game changer. A demographic shift that will create significant economic and political pressure on governments, countries and families. At the same creating opportunities to develop great services and products to improve the lives of those in the process of ageing. It is obvious that we need to reframe culturally how we view, perceive and related to aging. I propose will called it the wise segment of the population. I would describe it as people not getting older but getting Wiser.

All of us if we are lucky we will get Wiser and I hope we are all treated as wise and valuable human being instead of old people. I am not getting older I am getting wiser. I would like to suggest a very good book that I am reading on the subject “The Age of Aging” by George Magnus. I highly recommend it.

Think young while you get wiser.

Why should White guys have all the fun-Reginald Lewis

This is the real "Rocky" of business. The life of Reginald Lewis.  In 1992 Forbes Magazine listed him among the richest 400 Americans. The story of a black man that came from nothing to become a power player in the financial industry, among his acquisitions Beatriz Food, a global company. A man's determination and drive to brake through the barriers of a white dominated money world. They tried to exclude him from participating in deals. He did not work. This is predicable. What is surprising are the many that jumped in to help and support him in becoming extremely successful, among them Michael Milken the famous financier and Phyllis Schless the investment banker. They should do a movie on the life of Reginald Lewis, by the way he looked like Denzel Washington. The movie would be a mixture of Rocky and a formula one race. Read this book it is great. Every person needing inspiration or feeling like an underdog ought to read it. Forget about athletes being role models for kids, this is the real role model.

Stay Young and free

Screw it, Lets do it by Richard Branson

 Richard Branson is the Mick Jagger of business. A cool and ageless character bucking the system and simply playing the game on his own terms. He has really turned  business and making money into  a cosmic game of monopoly. He is a business pirate. A master mind at public relations, getting media attention, building teams and connecting with people/customers. He is a good role model for people wanting to go into business. I am personally tired of the guy with the strip suit and the cigar pounding the desk screaming at his employee, reset

 I read "Screw it, Lets do it" by Branson. It is a fun read. It is a book to keep around every time you are starting to take your life and yourself to seriously pull it out and read it. Business and life are great games. Lets play!

Stay young and free

The Book "Life" by Keith Richards

I always wondered how the Rolling Stones continue to fill stadiums, have the attitude and energy of teenagers while in their late 60' early 70's. After reading this book you realize how and why. These guys live a care free life, always connected to their passions, taking risks, not caring to much about what others think and finally living in the moment. All this while being incredibly successful as artist and business people. If your curious how to stay young and full of energy while minimize the level irrelevant details and Bull S... Read  "Life"

Stay young and free.

Neuehouse in New York the future of working and community

The Neuehouse in New York City is the coolest co working space on the planet. It is a great combination of community, design and cutting edge people, a must experience. It really proves that context is crucial in the process of creating and producing. A place that is inspirational where you can meet people that are in the process of creating extraordinary stuff. Add to it  lectures, events and very good food. By the way they just opened a Neuehouse in Los Angeles double the size of New York City. No more cubicle oppression we are entering in new paradigm of creating and working.
 www. Neuehouse.com

NGP-reset

The Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford

If you want to understand how automation and robotics will affect your life and that of your family in  the immediate future read this book. Example  Narrative science data driven story telling software among the many powerful trends that will affect society in a big way. Enjoy

Reset.

Cartel Land the documentary

This documentary is a must see. It is about the growth of vigilante movements both in Mexico and the USA borders. People taking matters into their own hands to defend themselves mostly against the Mexican Cartels. They feel that government is not there for them. I see this as a possible  warning for what could come at larger scale.
enjoy and reset

Hacker the outlaw Chronicles by Ted Dekker

This is a very surprising book. It is a mixture of science fiction, a chase, tech, hacking and really cool spirituality. It is a great read with a very powerful message embedded within a fascinating  high tech hack the status quo  story. I had never read Ted Dekker. I looking to read another book of his. Will let you know what I think.

Radames

The Cuba Show

The opening of Cuba seems all about more tourism, legacy building for Obama and regime support. Not much in terms of political and economic freedom. There have been more then 3,000 politically motivated arrests in Cuba since Obama announced the opening of relationships with this regime. The Cuban government has thousands of political prisoners, economic control by one family and severe violations of human rights. This opening was a great opportunity to put in motion very important changes for the Cuban people. At the moment the only beneficiaries are Obama, a legacy play and the Cuban regime being propped up to continue the current model of repression and corruption. Please do not confuse this political move as having benefits for the people of Cuban. This strategy will prove that an opening without accountability will bring about the same results as the embargo. We need to stop using people for political gain. It is going to blow up in our faces at a global scale.

The new big global demographic shift-The planet is getting older.

There is big demographic Tsunami about to hit the planet. It is the shift towards an aging population. It is a global, political, social and economic game changer. The ramification in terms of health care is significant. The ramification for the family is more serious. It is an issue that is hard to tackle because we have a hard time dealing with our own aging and death.  It is a population segment that most people do not what to acknowledge nor serve. I have always wondered why more entrepreneur are not trying to exploit is extraordinary global opportunity. I think that has to do with what I just mentioned before the denial of our own aging. Yes, there are many ways to start to solve the many problems this challenge will bring to us. A good place to start is to change our perception of how we relate to aging and to people that are getting older. I would like to change how we call somebody that is not young; a person that is above sixty years old I will call from now on a "wise” person. Now we need to make being "wise" very cool, admired and respected like it is in Okinawa, Japan were people live the longest in the world. Maybe being young is over rated.