Millenials are the last great generation.

Millenials are the last great generation. Let me explain.

Addictive Mobile Apps

Millenials were the last generation to grow up without addictive mobile apps like social media and video games dominating their coming-of-age phase

Anyone who has read Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation knows what I’m talking about.

There was no such thing as escaping into your mobile phone at a boring family event, strangers house party, night out on the town, or at a corporate event.

Wanted to get a date? The majority of Millenials had no effective dating apps.

For many Millenials, if you wanted to make friends or find a date, you had to muster up the courage to talk to talk to total strangers.

In other words, the majority of Millenials developed social skills out of necessity.

Experience not Vertical Video

With AI turbocharging work and productivity, Millenials are the last generation to have done everything the old fashioned way to the point where their knowledge has been internalized - born of experience and forged into instinct.

These are the young professionals that mostly did math in their head, spent hours or days writing essays, researched topics without an LLM, and debugged their own code line by line.

Now, with AI decimating entry level jobs, Gen Alpha won’t even get a fair shake at the job market, and if they do, they will rarely have the opportunity to understand a company well enough to connect the dots at a level that the Millenial can.

Gen Z, you’re kind of in the game, but through no fault of your own, you’re overshadowed by your Millenial peers

But what about GenX? Over the hill, or still in the game?