The older I get, the less I know. When I was in my 20s I thought I knew a whole lot about embedded software development. Now in my late 50s I seem to be painful

The older I get, the less I know. When I was in my 20s I thought I knew a whole lot about embedded software development. Now in my late 50s I seem to be painfully aware of how little I actually know. Maybe this is part of the risk-taking mindset of being young: they don't yet know what they don't know so they're not encumbered by that realization. If I had felt this way in my 20s I would have been paralyzed by doubt. Now, with experience I realize that most everyone is essentially driving in the fog. Sometimes you can only see a few yards ahead and you have to just become comfortable with the uncertainty while doing what you can to mitigate it. When I was younger I either didn't see the fog or thought I needed to pretend it wasn't there.