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hi, could you please elaborate on that throwaway line '..takes me a little longer...'. i'm just a user so when i saw gmail and google aps, my first thought wa

by jgamman 19y ago

hi, could you please elaborate on that throwaway line '..takes me a little longer...'. i'm just a user so when i saw gmail and google aps, my first thought was woohoo, i don't need to know how to do the boring back end stuff for email/calendars etc if/when i need to set a system up for myself. it's not a new idea but would you say your experience in the back end stuff blinded you to newer ways of doing things? can't remember who said it, but once you have a solution to a problem, regardless of how tortuous it is, it's always going to win out over the hassle of researching and troubleshooting an alternative, just because you know it's going to take x hours and you can budget the time accurately - especially when you have 10 things to do at once that you aren't sure of the solution to. (btw just to be clear, i'm not hassling you - i just think there's a general principle here that youth has a natural advantage purely through not lugging the baggage of experience along with them. same in the physical sciences where i hang out except we have to wait for generational retirement for the new cycle ;-)

gibsonf1 19y ago
I admit I was joking a bit about the "getting older" and "taking longer" part. Had I played more extensively with gmail earlier, I would have switched right when it was possible to keep your domain, which I think has only been possible for a few months now. So I think a lack of knowledge about gmail played a bigger role than age. To the extent that adapting to new contexts is a reflection of "age", I am a very young person. (After using gmail for 1 day with my startup's streamfocus.com domain, I switched my whole architectural firm over) As far as the age issue, in the sense that you're talking about, I've met many 20 somethings who acted "older" than me. I have always been a risk taker, an optimist, a person constantly learning to improve, and many people aren't. This is not an age issue, but an outlook on life issue.
- jgamman 19y ago
  hi, thanks for the reply - sorry, i interpreted your joking bits to mean that you had been around for a lot longer.

by jgamman 19y ago

gibsonf1 19y ago

I admit I was joking a bit about the "getting older" and "taking longer" part. Had I played more extensively with gmail earlier, I would have switched right when it was possible to keep your domain, which I think has only been possible for a few months now. So I think a lack of knowledge about gmail played a bigger role than age. To the extent that adapting to new contexts is a reflection of "age", I am a very young person. (After using gmail for 1 day with my startup's streamfocus.com domain, I switched my whole architectural firm over) As far as the age issue, in the sense that you're talking about, I've met many 20 somethings who acted "older" than me. I have always been a risk taker, an optimist, a person constantly learning to improve, and many people aren't. This is not an age issue, but an outlook on life issue.

jgamman 19y ago
hi, thanks for the reply - sorry, i interpreted your joking bits to mean that you had been around for a lot longer.