Just Over 50 and Not Dead Yet

In a learning state of mind? A myriad of options online

In Adult workers have a lot to learn online (FT, April 22), Michael Schrage (MIT's Sloan School) makes the case that 'mature' workers have a lot to gain from using the myriad options available online, many of them free.

The brain is a muscle, in order to work it needs to be flexed.

In 'The Age of Entitlement', Boomers through the lenses of 3 US Centric Books

This week-end in The Age of Entitlement, Michael Skapinker (FT) takes a look at 3 Boomer focused books whose main drawback he thinks is their US centric view.
They are Boom! Voices of the Sixties by Tom Brokaw, second is Generation Ageless: How Baby Boomers Are Changing the Way We Live Today…And They’re Just Getting Started by J. Walker Smith, Ann S. Clurman and last  Boom: Marketing to the Ultimate Power Consumer-the Baby Boomer Woman  by  Mary Brown - Carol Orsborn.

Maybe there is too much of an accent on the material side but I guess this is where the sense of entitlement can be most noticed.

What happened to the idealism though?