Comment by SoftTalker
16 hours ago
People on the borderlines often are overlooked. I'm an old GenX, a few years too young to be a Boomer, and even the younger Boomers grew up with a quite different experience than the mainline Boomer generation. And I was already an adult and married by the main part of the GenX era.
Dividing generations across decades might work for marketing to them in general, but it's otherwise about as useful as horoscopes and the BMI scale.
Duodecades are superior to decades, and we can take overlapping pairs of duodecades as "generations" to solve the dividing line problem.
Duodecades:
Overlapping generations:
Precise boundaries are clearly problematic but you can’t claim that someone born in the late 60s had the same type of global view that someone born in the late 80s did.
The BMI scale is useful. Yes, athletes and bodybuilders it may not be accurate for, but being on HN I think you are neither :)
Currently, I am at 20 BMI, for reference.
I feel like looking at a photo to judge how fat they are is probably equally effective tbh. It is a rule of thumb at best.
You might be Generation Jones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones
I'm slightly younger than that, but certainly shared parts of their experiences. Closer to Jones than Boomer for sure. And my father was too young for WWII and too old for Vietnam so I have no direct ties to either of those experiences.