Almost always, when a 20-year-old and a 60-year-old work together, the 60-year-old is in a position of authority over the 20-year-old. Maybe this should be reversed sometimes?https://twitter.com/s_r_constantin/status/1217221033515634689 …
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It just occurred to me that I had assumed that "more intergenerational collaborations" necessarily meant "more young people being subordinate to old people", and that feels aversive to me. But *do* those collaborations always have to be unequal? Not sure.
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Hmm, I dunno. I would say depends. Silicon Valley has ALOT of examples of young “mentoring” old, and I have never seen it work out. If you mean having “the beginners mind” be infused into set ways, that’s certainly healthy, but thats agnostic to age anyway.
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I basically never see an <45 manager with an >50 direct report. The one time I did, the >50 guy got fired for arguing with his boss too much, which seemed unfair to me at the time. What have you seen?
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