You should not be getting downvoted. When I was a young 20 something starting out in the bay (20 years ago) I ran across quite a few older engineers (some of t

You should not be getting downvoted. When I was a young 20 something starting out in the bay (20 years ago) I ran across quite a few older engineers (some of them in their 50's). All the best things I know came from them. I remember at one point one of them handed me a spiral bound book of the papers from an early 90s (or late 80s) unix conference. Papers, actual papers, from a conference, BOUND (pre internet right there) --- there were a lot of interesting insights that came from that book that still impact me to this very day.