AMAZING START-UPS, INTERNS, OLDIES AND NEWBIES
“Old school” or “old’s cool”?
Dear Newbies, Oldies,
Newbies-Oldies and Oldies-Newbies,
mga kapatid, ka-pamilya, ka-barkada, kasama, ka-negosyo, kaibigan
at ka-ibigan
“Old school” or “old’s
cool”? Watch the movie “Intern” and find out.
Isn’t it amazing to
remember that the oldies used to say “it’s a brave new world”? Isn’t it more
amazing to see newbies fearlessly doing what they’re doing, with no time to say
what it is they’re doing?
So what are the
newbies doing? Start-ups… the kind my boss has been preaching
about. “Intern” is a funny story of newbies fearlessly, effortlessly doing
startups, doing it well, until oldie Ben (De Niro) joined a den of newbie
interns, and did it better! It still is a brave new world
except that the newbies just keep on braving it, faster than the speed of
sound, with no time say “it’s a brave new world”.
Amazing what the
newbies can teach the oldies. More amazing is what oldies can teach newbies.
For telling that story, “Intern” is amazing. I’m not surprised the movie was
full, with more oldies than newbies.
Talking of amazing,
“Heneral Luna” is another amazing movie, not because it’s clearly a good one,
but because the theater was full when I watched it, with more newbies than
oldies. The lesson of the “fiction-based-on facts” movie hit is that war
and revolution do produce heels and heroes, widows and orphans. For that
lesson, I see it as "fact-based-on fictions".
Let us be mindful that
our war on Poverty produces only victors.
A little time off from
braving our start-ups and a big laugh will do a lot of good for “TODDLERS”! We
may be getting old, but our stories are always new. Keep toddling on,
fearlessly, effortlessly!
Enjoy,
Bob
WAWD, September 30,
2015
