NEVER RETIRE

I’ve been told I am too old. A judgement and opinion says more about the messenger than it does about the message.

Age is an easy shorthand for fear of relevance, of change, of depth in a culture addicted to speed. I reject this entirely. I believe in slow and steady.

I am not finished, not fading, and still becoming. I am flawed, as all serious practitioners are. But never too old to learn, to adapt, to contribute, or to lead. While I am healthy and alive, I will continue my deep dive toward service as a multilingual, multicultural technology and academic media maestro, working at the intersection of truth, context, and human connection. Experience is not nostalgia. It is infrastructure. Wisdom is not stagnation. It is pattern recognition.

I have lived through technological revolutions that promised liberation and delivered disruption. I have seen journalism at its best, fearless, rigorous, public-minded, and at its worst, timid, captured, hollowed out by incentives that confuse attention with impact. I know what was lost, what survived, and what must now be rebuilt.

The future of media does not belong solely to the young, nor should it. It belongs to those willing to bridge worlds: analog and digital, local and global, human and machine. It belongs to translators, across languages, cultures, disciplines, and generations.

That is my life’s work. I believe multilingualism is not a luxury; it is a moral stance.
I believe multicultural fluency is not performative; it is essential.
I believe technology without ethics is noise, and media messages without memory can be dangerous.

I refuse the idea that innovation requires erasure. Progress does not demand that we discard elders any more than it demands we silence youth. The strongest systems are intergenerational. The most resilient institutions are built by people who can remember where all the cliffs are and learn how to avoid them.

I will mentor, and collaborate until it’s too late, and continue to learn and revise my thinking without shame.

I will use new tools, AI included, not as replacements for judgment, but as instruments sharpened by it. I will insist on depth in a shallow age, context in a headline economy, and humanity in systems that increasingly forget it.

I am not chasing relevance. I am practicing responsibility. As long as my voice carries, I will use it.
As long as my mind questions, I will engage it. As long as I am still here, I will serve.

Not despite my years, but thanks to my eclectic experiences, previous fears and because of them.