“Soon enough, his learners will see across the planet. They'll watch the vast boreal forest from space and read the species-teeming tropics from eye level. They'll study rivers and measure what's in them. They'll collate the data of every wild creature ever tagged and map their wanderings. They'll read every sentence in every article that every field scientist ever published. They'll binge-watch every landscape that anyone has pointed a camera at. They'll listen to all the sounds of the streaming Earth. They'll do what the genes of their ancestors shaped them to do, what all their forebears have ever done themselves. They'll speculate on what it takes to live and put those speculations to the test. Then they'll say what life wants from people, and how it might use them.” LearningInternetEnvironmentalismWebMillennialGen YGenxers Book:The Overstory Source: The Overstory
“Instead of trying to find a path to follow, today's most successful professionals seek to acquire the right skills to set themselves up for advancement.” WomenWorkSkillsWorkplaceCareer PathMillennialGen Y Book:Learn, Work, Lead- Things Your Mentor Won't Tell You Source: Learn, Work, Lead- Things Your Mentor Won't Tell You
“How often have you heard people brag about what great multi-taskers they are? Perhaps you’ve made the same boast yourself. You might even have heard that members of “Gen Y” are natural multi-taskers, having lived their whole lives constantly switching their attention from texting to IMing to Facebooking to watching TV— all supposedly without missing a beat. We even see training classes designed to teach managers how best to multi-task their Gen Y staff, the implication being that asking someone to focus on a single task through to completion has now become ridiculously old-fashioned for, if not downright heretical to, the new world order. Don’t believe it.” AgileMultitaskingLeanGen YToc Author:Michael Hannan
“Why is it we don’t intervene in the bureaucracy?” asks Chris Bobel, the gender studies scholar, who has noted that many young activists prefer “DIY activism” – making art, changing their own consumer habits, making their own products rather than buying corporate ones. They tell her, “We don’t want to be in bed with the enemy,” she says. “That’s not where change happens. That’s old-school activism. We’re all about DIY’”. Bobel sighs. “A lot of these activists weren’t even registered voters.” CynicismNarcissismSocial WithdrawalGen YHyperindividualismDiy Activism Book:Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity Source: Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity