Goodbye 30-Year Retirements, Hello Encore Years

By | Feb 3, 2012

We need a new map of life. We’ve been making do with one that was fashioned for an expected longevity of threescore and 10. We shouldn’t knock that legacy. At one time, that constituted progress. But we can’t stuff a 21st century life span into a...

Steve Jobs’ Message for Boomers

By | Oct 7, 2011

I will remember Steve Jobs not for product design, but for life design. In the commencement address Jobs gave to Stanford undergraduates in 2005, he recounts reading a quote at 17 that said if you live each day as if it were your last, someday you’ll almost...

What Is Retirement, Anyway?

By | Oct 7, 2011

That’s the question NPR asked a few days ago, in the final segment of a series they called Life in Retirement: The Not-So-Golden Years. Here’s my answer: Retirements that promise 30 or 40 years of leisure are no longer sustainable for individuals or...

These People Are Changing the World

By | Nov 9, 2010

In some ways, five years doesn’t seem like such a long time. And yet, in the past five years, so much has changed, economically, politically, even demographically, as the first wave of baby boomers moved into their 60s. With many of those changes in mind, two...

In Memoriam: Henry Liu, 2009 Purpose Prize Winner

By | Dec 2, 2009

On behalf of Civic Ventures’ staff and board, I want to express deep sadness over the death of 2009 Purpose Prize winner Henry Liu, who was killed in a car accident on Tuesday. Our condolences go out to Professor Liu’s family and to his colleagues. It is...