Courtesy of Chip Conley Influencer in Aging and hospitality entrepreneur Chip Conley coined the term “modern elder” when he jointed Airbnb at 52 as a strategic adviser and was twice the age of the average employee there. In the last year, he has opened the Modern Elder Academy, a boutique resort for midlife learning and
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The world is on the cusp of a massive $12.3 trillion 5G explosion. Former Verizon CEO, Lowell McAdam, says 5G “will usher in the Fourth Industrial Revolution for this country.” Some of the world’s biggest businesses — Qualcomm, Intel, Verizon, and Ericsson to name a few — are piling in. Telecom mobile tower with blue
When most people think about investing for retirement, they think about a financial investment: How much am I saving? Where is it being invested? What kind of return can I expect? Planning your financial investment before you retire is not bad, obviously. But this perspective by itself misses the whole picture. You also want to
Getty Most of us have some vision of what we would like our golden years to look like. We all have different ambitions: strolling on the beach, traveling the world, reading in a rocking chair beside a lake, hitting the golf course every day, spending time with family and friends, or thousands of other permutations.
A rainy night in mid-town Manhattan, 2013. Something was happening at 8th Ave. and 44th St. — sirens, squad cars, cops cordoning off a corner. My actress girlfriend and I were coming from a theater workshop at the Producers Club on 44th, and she said as we approached the avenue: “You might be covering that