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Young people: 1. Learn faster (better memory) 2. Can keep their attention focused longer. Number 1 actually becomes a bane with old people: my relati
by cft 10y ago
Young people:
1. Learn faster (better memory)
2. Can keep their attention focused longer.
Number 1 actually becomes a bane with old people: my relatives over 70 actively developed an active reticence to learn anything new: I even theorized that they are instinctively protecting the limited amount of functional short term memory for vital tasks.
- peteretep 10y ago> Learn faster (better memory) And yet, when I needed to learn XSLT (and then React), I was able to simply inhale it in one go because of my experience of similar technologies and functional programming, which come about from having been doing this quite a while. Younger and quicker developers took a lot longer over it and to find their feet because there were many new concepts there for them. As you get older, there's less to you haven't already learned.
- thaw13579 10y agoLet's put aside the unsubstantiated claims about biology (and old doesn't mean 70 yrs in this context). Jobs that rely heavily on attention span and learning speed can also quickly get boring and unfulfilling--the more experienced folks probably know to steer away from that.