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Thrilled to join Brene Brown’s “Daring Interview” series
Love the tag line: “on aging against the machine, being hopelessly direct, and dancing to EDM on a hot summer night.” Not to mention the illustrious company I’m keeping.
https://thischairrocks.com/2024/04/26/thrilled-to-join-brene-browns-daring-interview-series/
It’s about competence, not age. And voters have a right to know more.
Last week a gratuitous swipe ramped up the ongoing discussion about Biden’s age to a fevered pitch. When the Department of Justice declined to prosecute the President for his handling of classi...
What a waste.
The luxury skincare firm Estée Lauder just announced a partnership with the Stanford Center on Longevity. According to the press release, the goal of this new “longevity expert collective” i...
More research showing ageism shortens lives
“Ageism, and an older person’s perception of aging, may hold the keys to a longer life.” That’s the first sentence of Why age bias has real world health effects, just published by the...
https://thischairrocks.com/2023/12/13/more-research-showing-ageism-shortens-lives/
Think “too many old people” will swamp social welfare programs? Think again.
Since the 1970s, population aging—the proverbial “gray tsunami”—has been used to justify “pension reform,” austerity, and privatization across the wealthy nations. Alarmist projection...
Momentum
Concrete evidence of culture change is rare. My latest newsletter is packed with it! Let’s celebrate huge progress in raising awareness of ageism around the world, draw inspiration from it, and...
“Rejected.” The human cost of ageism in the workplace
On Saturday I received this note via LinkedIn from a woman named Amy Claire Massingale. Massingale has a background in business development and marketing, and is also a published poet. She had ap...
https://thischairrocks.com/2023/09/25/rejected-the-human-cost-of-ageism-in-the-workplace/
A Tale of Three Bicycles
My latest newsletter, about giving up my old bike and why. I loved hearing back from a subscriber, who responded with a story of a doctor who tells his patient, “I’m sorry, I can’t make you...
https://thischairrocks.com/2023/08/21/a-tale-of-three-bicycles/
Women in the workforce are *never* the right age. (Or “right” anything else.)
Why are women still so underrepresented in positions of power? In the US, for example, why do women still make up only a meager 10% of people running Fortune 500 companies? Take heart, there’...
Enough with the headlines about age! Not for the reason you think.
Age and age discrimination have never gotten more media coverage, especially in the wake of President Biden’ announcement that he’s running for re-election. If there’s anyone who should be ...