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> Are we going to sit in an increasingly sparsely-populated ivory tower and complain how nobody wants to learn? Yes. I'm not going to put in the effort to rea

• klibertp 5y ago
  Unfortunately that only works for a time - namely, until the "uneducated masses" decide to topple the tower down. Historically, they succeeded almost every single time. I might be getting carried away with the metaphor, but honestly, I'm afraid. Who's to guarantee to me that in 20 years I won't be the one that the majority of his colleagues "can't get along with"? I won't retire fast enough to ignore the issue completely. As such, I think I'll try (in self-defense, basically) doing what people in my position have been doing since the dawn of time to stay relevant - that is, to try and become a mentor for the younger folks. But "the kids these days", they don't want to read my blog posts, they want to hear me (and I absolutely hate hearing myself recorded!) and they want to look at my face (what for, for f... sake?! am I a model?) while I explain (and sing, and dance, for better effect?) things to them with a nice screencast. On top of that I don't even have a luxury of saying it's simply technically not possible, like people 30 (or even 20) could. Unfortunately for my poor heart, the authoring of videos is becoming easier (than it ever should, dammit!) and easier way faster than my retirement approaching. I'm sure situations like this played out many, many times in history. Last time I tried looking into this I learned the term "defenestration". That's how optimistic it feels at the moment :)