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One thing I've noticed as I've reached my late 30s is I'm less hungry to learn new things, and I used to be very intellectually driven. I'm increasingly tired o
by asdfman123 2y ago
One thing I've noticed as I've reached my late 30s is I'm less hungry to learn new things, and I used to be very intellectually driven. I'm increasingly tired of keeping up with everything and proving myself.
I think if you can stay hungry then you can stay good for longer. But maybe it's partly motivation, and partly raw ability. Maybe they're somewhat linked.
- jart 2y agoHungry for what? To throw all your experience away, by switching to the next vogue language framework?
- asdfman123 2y agoI agree, learning stuff like that is a dubious value add. But I'm less hungry to learn all sorts of new things. I still like learning, but when I was young I had to know everything.
- lesuorac 2y agoWhile I agree with your sentiment; if you don't try new stuff you won't learn if something new is better suited than your current framework. Perhaps wait until things are no longer cutting edge to learn about it is a good compromise.
- jart 2y agoI mostly code in C, C++, Python, Emacs, Almquist, GNU Make, and VanillaJS. I have been for more than two decades. My website looks like danluu.com and bellard.org. Why do I need to change?
- lesuorac 2y agoI highly doubt there's anything in that list that can't be done by C; why didn't you stop after learning C? This is why you still have to learn stuff, it turns out that new technologies can be useful.
- msla 2y agoSo you admit you have no idea how to learn a new language.
- asdfman123 2y agoSaying "there is nothing more worth learning" is the worst indictment about this sort of thing I could think of. Not only do they not want to learn, they're not even aware that they should want to. This is exactly why people age out of the profession.