> There seem to be more articles about age popping up on HN lately. I find this both weird and disconcerting. Not so weird. We're now 30+ years from the dawn

> There seem to be more articles about age popping up on HN lately. I find this both weird and disconcerting. Not so weird. We're now 30+ years from the dawn of the desktop PC marketplace. 20+ years from the dawn of the web and associated original internet startup mania. 10+ years from the post-collapse web 2.0 resurgence with Ajax and frameworks. Pushing a decade since the introduction of the smartphone. Every bright-eyed twentysomething that could bask in the glory of their wunderkind youth at the start of each of those eras -- everybody who knew PG was talking to/about them in his essays -- has now wound the course that time dictates everybody's gotta take: they arrived at being older. So of course there's a lot of interest in what that means in the software industry. And maybe some rueful reflection from some participants on what they thought that meant when they were younger.