YPGBlog

Hello, and welcome to YPGBlog. This blog is an extension of the book Young Person’s Guide: Making Smart Choices. If you are a young person, I hope to help you become a more mature decider so that you can live a better life.

Generation NeXt

This site is for young persons age 16-30, what I call Generation NeXt. It’s also an important resource for “tribal elders”—parents, educators, older friends, and other trusted adults—with whom you might share a close personal relationship.

Your Strategic Observer

This site is authored by me, Brian Gahran. My aim is to help you, Joe or Jane Youngperson, develop power over an unpredictable future. I try to highlight aspects of what you don’t know (but should), what you know (that just ain’t so), and what you should care about (but don’t).

What matters most is opening your minds, exposing you to things you might not have considered, and getting you to think about the long-term consequences of your controllable decisions. None of us can predict the future—my aim is to prevent you from getting the future seriously wrong.

That’s it. Thanks again, and I hope you find it useful.