Are you sure this is an age problem and not a wisdom problem? I'm getting close to 40 myself, and a 25-year look at the clusterfuck garbage dump we call our in

Are you sure this is an age problem and not a wisdom problem? I'm getting close to 40 myself, and a 25-year look at the clusterfuck garbage dump we call our industry kind of makes me lose heart. Just had to install Visual Studio yesterday. It took hours! We have JavaScript frontends even on the embedded stuff. I had hoped and prayed JS would be dead by now. Still alive--but now we compile it with even more javascript! Hell, even one of the bright spots of our industry--Clojure--runs on top of the 256MB-for-hello-world JVM (another hot mess). Don't even get me started on the surveillance-state nightmare of Google/FB/Android/iOS/etc... What if the problem isn't that your brain is slowing down? What if the problem is that your brain is wising up?