David Stewart

like the oscars, but for people hiring AGEISTs We’ve featured plenty of people — chief among them our friends John Tarnoff and Chip Conley — who both advocate for and exhibit the benefits of a mixed-age workforce. So it’s nice to see, via a very good article in The New York Times, that...

I’ve been out speaking at events quite a bit recently, and people always ask me what is the defining feature of the people we feature in AGEIST. My response is that it is not age, nor income, nor geography (although we could improve dramatically in this area), nor career....

If new and shiny isn’t enough to make you want to buy the next best technology on the market, maybe it's lifesaving properties will. Since the release of the Apple Watch in 2015, the new generation of smartwatches are wearable technologies that are changing the market for preventive medicine....

HIIT training. Maybe you have heard it’s an amazingly efficient way to burn fat, increase your cardio capacity, increase insulin resistance and alter your mood. Science says this is all 100% correct. It is also stressful for your body. It’s flu season, and an overstressed, run down immune system...

Owning It Norman Lear is 96 and working hard on season 3 of his Netflix reboot of boundary-breaking sitcom “One Day At A Time.” We asked Norman: After all these years, the shows and the awards, of all the characters you have created, which is the one you identify with...

Old street, Jiufen Cascading down the hills east of Taipei, the former gold mining town is now world renowned for its street food. Sure, the town photographs well from the outside, but its along its winding, cobblestoned Old Street where you’ll want to be spending your time. For those of...

Tucked into the stunning and violent landscape of California’s Big Sur, Esalen Institute has long been the go-to retreat for those seeking a dose of profound spiritual awakening combined (or augmented) with a dip in their natural hot springs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Founded in 1962 by two Stanford psychology graduates...

CNN Branded-Content Collaboration CNN’s branded-content arm, Courageous recently collaborated with AGEIST on this. Check it out. We helped them with casting and content, but it wasn’t really our intention that the client would choose me as the subject. Humm…What does one wear? How does one hold one’s body? Does my voice sound...

Get Uncomfortable I have been writing about pushing ourselves to do things that may seem impossible but that are actually just difficult or unpleasant. There is another side to this. What happens if we consistently allow ourselves only to do what is most comfortable? My friend Jonathan tells me he...

In a city iconized for its palm tree-lined streets, car-centric Los Angeles is ironically loathed by locals and tourists alike for its heavy traffic. Thousands of semi-trailer trucks move in and out of the largest container port in North America, dispersing goods to the rest of the country, but...