30 or Bust?

It’s a great time to be 30, because you have enough practical experience in the workforce to be able to create content and post it to the world on YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter, etc. Creating content is the new “gold standard” and at 30 you have hustled enough to speak into the lives of the Millennial generation or Generation Y or is it Why!? The ones who are consuming content at astronomical rates, while losing faith in the current political/societal/cultural system.

We are in the thick of the 2016 Presidential Election, both candidates seem out of touch, as do most elitist such as CEOs, government leaders, Hollywood stars, etc. What comes to mind as an effective campaigning technique would be vlogging. It's the transparency that makes guys like Casey Neistat or Gary Vaynerchuk so appealing. Video frames in the everyday lives of the upcoming leaders of the Millennial generation. It’s not about what they say, especially when they are in the limelight. But it's about what they do, day in and day out.

The way you maintain culture is the same answers the question prior to this, you do it in your actions. I don’t meet with every single employee that works for me for 10 minutes three months in to “check the box” and seem like a personal CEO. I do it because in those 10 minutes I want to create some sort of connection that makes them feel comfortable to say “hi” to me in the elevator or to come with a problem to me.

The juggernaut-types that have carried this society, like Steve Jobs, Tony Fadell or Jeff Bezos are slowly fading. The hierarchical organizations are falling. Sidenote: I highly recommend working, short term, for this type of CEO or company during your career/calling. It will shake your foundation, where the goal is perfection and nothing else matters. The future consists of teams who leap for the unknown, like Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the colonization of Mars. Individuals like Casey, Gary, and others are coming alongside Generation Y with motivation instead of being the rebuker.

There is so much negativity and bantering with this election. It’s good to see the future leaders of this country staying out of it and creating snippets of motivation and/or encouragement.

UPDATE:

The top 20 YouTubers reach over a billion views every single week, every seven days. we have the power to activate a demographic, an electorate that isn’t typically very active.

Less than 24 hours of writing this, Casey Neistat has posted a video encouraging the young generation to vote. Here is an opposite view from Wranglerstar. But Mike Rowe’s response, pulled from a Facebook post he wrote back in August is the most interesting.

I’m afraid I can’t encourage millions of people whom I’ve never met to just run out and cast a ballot, simply because they have the right to vote. That would be like encouraging everyone to buy an AR-15, simply because they have the right to bear arms. I would need to know a few things about them before offering that kind of encouragement.

And a bit of encouragement from Mike…

Spend a few hours every week studying American history, human nature, and economic theory. Start with “Economics in One Lesson.” Then try Keynes. Then Hayek. Then Marx. Then Hegel. Develop a worldview that you can articulate as well as defend. Test your theory with people who disagree with you. Debate. Argue. Adjust your philosophy as necessary. Then, when the next election comes around, cast a vote for the candidate whose worldview seems most in line with your own.