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As a 48-year-old (!), I can't tell you how hopeful this article made me feel.
by sabat 15y ago
As a 48-year-old (!), I can't tell you how hopeful this article made me feel.
- kalid 15y agoYou know, I realize a lot of life falls into the "shopping cart" effect. If there's 5 lines at the grocery store, there's an 80% chance you'll see another line moving faster than yours (there's only a 20% chance you picked the fastest line). I've recently turned 30 but realize there is no race to make it. Not for me anyway. Maybe I'm turning Zen about it but who really cares when you "succeed"? "The people that mind don't matter, and the people that matter don't mind." By the way, Colonel Sanders (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders) began franchising KFC at age...65
- 6ren 15y agoAdobe was founded by a 42 and 43 year old, if it makes you feel any better. And if anything, we seem to be aging more slowly than way back then (1982). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Geschke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Geschke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warnock http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warnock
- kevin_morrill 15y agoRay Kroc who is arguably more transformative bought McDonalds at age 59 and turned it into the empire it is now. His autobiography Grinding It Out is an inspiring read.
- cageface 15y agoI certainly don't claim to be a genius, but at 41 I'm writing the best code of my life.
- tsotha 15y agoBut in ten years you'll run across an old code fragment and wonder "What was I thinking?" That's the way it works for me, anyway.
- cageface 15y agoIt may be unrelated, but I have noticed I appreciate statically typed languages a lot more lately. Having the compiler looking over my shoulder makes a lot of things easier.