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Huebner found that while the total number of innovations rose in the twentieth century, the number of innovations per capita peaked in the nineteenth century.

Saifedean Ammous • The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

The United States is currently populated by six generations: Silents (born 1925–1945), Boomers (1946–1964), Generation X (1965–1979), Millennials (1980–1994), Generation Z (aka iGen or Zoomers, 1995–2012), and an as-yet-unnamed generation born after 2013 (I call them Polars; some marketers have called them Alphas). Generations aren’t just an

Jean M. Twenge • Generations

Soon after I first posted this essay in a blog some 15 years ago, a young man approached me to ask if I minded him reposting it. I asked him where that would be. He and some others had launched a site called ‘Generation’. Its aim was to prepare for the coming war between the generations by assembling useful documents and providing a forum for... See more

John Keith Hart • %

A prescient internal email from Peter Thiel to Zuckerberg, written years ago. Few possess the gift of foresight quite like Peter Thiel. What he perceived then is now crystallizing into one of the defining themes of the years to come… https://t.co/8EfGqyP45u

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The next Fourth Turning is due to begin shortly after the new millennium, midway through the Oh-Oh decade. Around the year 2005, a sudden spark will catalyze a Crisis mood. Remnants of the old social order will disintegrate. Political and economic trust will implode. Real hardship will beset the land, with severe distress that could involve... See more

William Strauss • The Fourth Turning

You can find Vernon Smith hard at work at his computer by 7:30 each morning, cranking out 10 solid hours of writing and researching every day.

His job is incredibly demanding — he is currently on the faculty of both the business and law schools at Chapman University. But the hard work pays off: Smith’s research is consistently ranked as the... See more

Jeanne Dorin McDowell • Celebrating What's Right With Aging: Inside the Minds of Super Agers

IT’S BEEN well-documented that there is a growing sense of entitlement among young people today.

Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture

Twenty-five percent of Gen Z’ers8 don’t believe they’ll ever be able to retire.

Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success

The publishing of L’Âge de la multitude in 2012 caught the attention of the French government. As I went back to the public sector for a brief period, they asked me to write a report, alongside Pierre Collin (a respected tax judge in the French Conseil d’Etat), on taxation and the digital economy[207]. The