“Dear Old People Who Run the World,
My generation would like to break up with you…
Gen M is about passion, responsibility, authenticity, and challenging yesterday’s way of everything. Everywhere I look, I see an explosion of Gen M businesses, NGOs, open-source communities, local initiatives, government. Who’s Gen M? Obama, kind of. Larry and Sergey. The Threadless,Etsy, and Flickr guys. Ev, Biz and the Twitter crew. Tehran 2.0. The folks at Kiva, Talking Points Memo, and FindtheFarmer. Shigeru Miyamoto, Steve Jobs, Muhammad Yunus, and Jeff Sachs are like the grandpas of Gen M. There are tons where these innovators came from.”
No matter how many times I read this piece I still get excited. As a person on the verge of entering this scary new economy sometimes it is hard to imagine the good that will come out of working. And then I read Umair Haque’s work at his Harvard Business Review blog and the fear transforms into a sense of opportunity.
