> Part of that, I hate to admit, is probably because I'm 60, and I got really sick of sitting in meetups, with a circle of avoidance around me. Man, this makes

> Part of that, I hate to admit, is probably because I'm 60, and I got really sick of sitting in meetups, with a circle of avoidance around me. Man, this makes me sad. I come from a traditional engineering field; in meetup situations, the old guys were ALWAYS the most popular people around due to the sheer volume of problems they've solved and situations they'd seen. I got to talk to so many people whose names are synonymous with their (admittedly niche) fields (except for Ted Anderson[0], who's pretty well-known in the relevant industries) and learned a ton from all of them. [0]https://fracturemechanics.com/ https://fracturemechanics.com/