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> To me, it’s a sort of humblebrag - because I’m older than you, my opinions are more valuable. I am getting older too, but I’m constantly learning things from
by mnd999 7y ago
> To me, it’s a sort of humblebrag - because I’m older than you, my opinions are more valuable.
I am getting older too, but I’m constantly learning things from people younger than me - increasingly more so than those older than me. And that’s okay.
Sure I’ve done more and seen more but how much of it is actually relevant? Some for sure, but this world changes so fast. Are my opinions valuable? Yes. More so simply because of my age? No.
- allenu 7y agoI’m about a year younger than the author of the blog post and I agree with you. This is something that has been scaring me a little in the last year: getting older does not mean life as a whole gets easier. There are just more advanced things that keep you up at night. And yes, the world changes so quickly that you soon realize that you too are becoming irrelevant. What a curse to feel the optimism and specialness of youth only to see it slowly fade away.
- falcolas 7y agoI’m not sure that things are actually changing all that quickly. Instead, we’re just watching a pendulum swing from one extreme (control) to another extreme (freedom). And its this repeated movement between the two extremes which are providing our incremental improvements, since we keep the good parts from each end, and use those as the foundation for what the next extreme will look like. Programming provides an interesting microcosm of this, if you look at overall attitudes towards variable typing. What have I learned? Nothing new; “this too shall pass” is a phrase much older than I am. But I’m able to accept it, and take advantage of the gains of the wild pendulum’s swing without being caught up in it myself.