Age and experience's peak

When does age and experience peak? Well, that is a question that has several facets to it. It depends on the individual and the experience in question. 

Tom Brady has much more experience than Partick Mahomes. Tom may have peaked a few years ago and in football that maybe 35 years old for a quarterback. Sports such as racecar driving, basketball, baseball, and golf all have those magic moments when the athlete hits there peak. 

What about in the business world is it different from sports? Well, yes and no. Obviously, the physical requirements are not as much of a factor. What about the mental capacity to keep up with the rapid pace of change. 

Technology is building on its own swift pace, and everything speeds up. 

See Moore's Law: 

Moore's Law refers to Moore's perception that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles every two years, though the cost of computers is halved. Moore's Law states that we can expect the speed and capability of our computers to increase every couple of years, and we will pay less for them.

Are we prepared?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/24/905789/were-not-prepared-for-the-end-of-moores-law/

I believe we peak when our brains, stamina, and willingness to learn subside. But until then, age and experience are our most valuable asset. 

Keeping up is a full time job

In the last week, I had to build a website on a new platform, uploaded and edit a PowerPoint to a video, customize a database, and set up an email templet.

Keeping up with technology is a fulltime job. I have been using computer programs, apps,  and software since 1986. When smartphones came out, we were early adaptors. I recall my first smartphone was a Palm Centro. I was working at Radio Shack at the time. I specifically took that bridge-job so I could keep up with technology.

In the breakneck pace as soon as programs are developed, we have to learn how to use them. Some are user friendly; some are unfortunately not. Some programs require you to learn how to input data in them. Some you have to set criteria. In comparison, others interface with the programs you are already using.

I found out early on that the more skills and the more programs you learn, the more you can build on your knowledge base. As the tsunami of new applications hits, you can learn an adapt because the internet is there to teach you.

Where are we headed?

What an insane year 2020 has been. No need to rehash all the turmoil. Suffice to say this year will test the sanity of every rational person on this planet.

Humans are a funny lot; that is for sure. I look around, and I see people who think 180 degrees opposite of the way I see the world. It's like the old-time drive-in movie theatre were you drove in, and one went to one movie and another movie on the other screen. We seem to be watching life like we are viewing different realities.

The root word of culture is "cult." That is and has been the traditional glue that holds societies together. We are fragmented now more than ever before in our collective world views.

Judeo-Christian values held together western civilizations. But Darwin, Marx, and World War 1 hastened the demise of cultural religion. The fabric had been rent. Western society began a gradual but steep decline.

Will we be able to form a cohesive order without any value system that unites us, I doubt it. So the American Experience is on the rocks. What next, I wonder?

On the brink.

When we get down to it, society is fundamentally changing. Everything from the COVID-19 to the civil unrest has just begun to make huge and lasting changes to the world we live in. Our plight as humans is can we cope and keep up.

We must learn to shift our paradigms without losing the bedrock fundamentals, which hold us together. A society of any size can only be established and maintained by a common core of values. The root word of culture is "cult."

As order fragments, chaos reigns for a while, but anarchy abhors a vacuum of leadership, and it isn't long before a tyranny evolves to establish order.

Climate change issues, famines, pandemics, racial division, and or economic collapses all are looming on the horizon if this situation is not addressed. It seems to me that if you have sovereign nations, nothing can solve international issues. 

We must look at this situation, and you tell me what course do you think the world will choose. The situation seems ripe for one-world governance.

Political concerns too easily manipulate the United Nations and organizations like the World Health Organization. The answer does lie in an all-powerful world leader promising peace. Hum, where have I read about that being predicted?