I am around the same age as this guy and so much of it is mindset. My dad worked in a university computer lab for 30 years but at some point gave up learning ne

I am around the same age as this guy and so much of it is mindset. My dad worked in a university computer lab for 30 years but at some point gave up learning new technologies. He doesn't own a smartphone. Barely uses email. I set up his Roku but he won't use it, just watching whatever is on TV. Meanwhile, my neighbor is 90+ and recently asked me deep historical questions about the internet, like about ARPA, protocols, DNS... stuff many software engineers never bother learning about. He pushed until I couldn't go any deeper, then he was disappointed. It really just comes down to being more curious than lazy. And also changing how you learn what is worth learning - asking people who invest energy into what is good is a great way to save yourself time. Getting older means you recognize patterns in things, so you stop digging past the surface in a way you used to. Any time I watch an old music video on YouTube inevitably someone says "musicians today are garbage compared to this" without ever looking past (or even at) the most vanilla Top 40 music . But music is awesome right now, collaborative and unchained, whole careers spanning and unfolding on YouTube. Those same people who are posting about how great Bob Dylan is weren't listening to The Archies on Top 40 radio, they dug past it when they were young but no longer put in the effort. You need to find new ways to find the good stuff - spend energy when you are young learning how to be more efficient with your curiosity!