Year in Review: A Digital Executive on Hitting the Half-Century Mark


Far and away my most dissonance-generating disruption in 2014 was turning 50. It’s not age, per se, but reconciling my half-century of years with the fact that I have the word “digital” in my professional title. Oxymoron?

I can’t stop wondering: Is this unstoppable march of technology a window into my demise or fuel for my ascent? I’m banking on the latter, and yet everything these days seems to be a “relevance” test. Snap what?

When my wife threw a 50th bash for me in October in a hip wine “caveau” on the banks of Lake Geneva, I nearly panicked about getting the music right. Armed with an iPad and flexible Spotify playlist, I DJ’ed my own party and shockingly managed to keep everyone on the dance floor. Then again, one song misfire could have sealed my doom.

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