Twentieth century social scientists used to look at life as three sets of 8,000 days, the first ending around your 21st birthday, the second ending in your mid-forties when your “crisis” had taken hold, and the last act ending around your sixty-fifth birthday when you were retiring and withdrawing from an active role in society.

Policymakers better take note. My friend Andrew Scott, co-author of “The 100-Year Life,” outlines the following in his essay for the International Monetary Fund entitled “The Future of Aging for Policymakers:”

What is anything worth? And, what defines true wealth? Ponderous subjects in the wake of a couple record-setting IPOs last week.

“It’s only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.” Warren Buffett

Last year, after a routine mammogram, it was discovered that cancer cells were abnormally accumulating in one of my breasts. Cancer cells are in all of us, and throughout our body. When they cluster, but do not spread, it is pre-cancer. When they spread, it is cancer.

MEA mastery faculty member Lynne Twist wrote a bestselling book nearly two decades ago called “The Soul of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of our Inner Resources.” Given the financial challenges of COVID, it felt like an appropriate choice for this week’s Book Club.

IPO. Entrepreneurs dream about this day. Yet, Disappointment = Expectations - Reality so IPO might also represent “I’m Pissed Off” if the market doesn’t respond as you’d expected. The Airbnb founders have been preparing for today for a dozen years.

Crisis and opportunity are two sides of the same coin. This past year, a series of crises have predominated. Yet, all kinds of trends - that were already gathering steam - have accelerated due to the pandemic. Here are five that I’m particularly intrigued by:

During my time at Airbnb, CEO Brian Chesky often called me Secretary of State. As evidenced in the short video below of Airbnb co-founder and Brian and me (and moderator Julie Hanna), Brian came to realize that he needed an “elder statesman” to be the bridge to many of the industries Airbnb was disrupting: hotels, landlords, convention meeting planners, destination marketing organizations.

“Who needs wisdom when we have such exquisite algorithms?” A young data scientist asked me this question when I was at Airbnb. I could tell he was half-serious, so I pulled out a pen and paper and drew this pyramid (if you know me well enough, you know I have “pyramid-envy”).