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Twenty-Five @ 25
Wisdom from a Quarter-Life Crisis: People your age will lose babies before birth. You realize what Frodo meant. Teenagers really do make moronic decisions. Grown-ups don’t stop making mistakes, and they don’t necessarily manage them better. A boring life is a choice; adventures are everywhere. The sound of commitment is a hundred little “no’s” that let you say “yes” to what matters...
Subtracting from the Noise
There seems to be a generational disconnect around technology. Millenials eagerly gobble up iPads and Facebook while their parents tut and whine about internet culture. Social scientists bemoan the consequences of smartphones while students tune out their lectures with a game of Angry Birds. Young companies brashly accept the lure of the shiny and new with names like “Palantir” and logos featuring a bitten apple....
Project Re-Education
When I went to college I had dreams of emerging with a broad-based liberal arts education – being schooled in the philosophies of Aristotle and Socrates, knowing fun trivia about Charlemagne, and having special insights into Picasso. I saw myself sitting in cafes with friends and waxing philosophical about the Middle East while sipping a customized caffeine dose. I suppose my model would have been Neal Caffrey of T...
