Mark Zuckerberg's alleged quote is quite interesting - “Young people are just smarter. Young people just have simpler lives… Simplicity in life allows you to fo

Mark Zuckerberg's alleged quote is quite interesting - “Young people are just smarter. Young people just have simpler lives… Simplicity in life allows you to focus on what’s important.”. There's another group of people who have simple lives - empty nesters. Raising kids is time-demanding, hard work. Guess who no longer has that time suck? Guess who has over 35 year's worth of experience (and not just doing the exact same job and working with the same technologies)? Guess who knows how to turn business goals into results? Guess who knows the answers to the questions the business never even asked? This 54 year old developer, that's who! The good news for us experienced old farts is the idolization of young, inexperienced programmers appears to be mainly an SV culture thing. Out here in the "real world" older developers are prized for their soft skills and their vast experience in knowing what's important for getting stuff done.