Shiftheads - What Boomers and Gen Z Actually Have In Common

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Aug 20, 2026 · 9m

Ask a boomer and a Gen Zer what they share and you'll get blank stares from both. Greg Fish has a one-word answer for what's really going on, and it has nothing to do with age.

He walks through what happened between a childhood with five TV channels and a childhood with an infinite scroll, and why that shift in choice quietly rewired how an entire generation decides who deserves a platform and who doesn't.

There's a harder question buried in here too, about what a generation raised without the security boomers had is actually searching for, and what happens to compromise, politics, and…