> But large scale, high stress coding? I may have to admit that's a young man's game. If you're not up to it, or it's something you don't want to do, or you're

> But large scale, high stress coding? I may have to admit that's a young man's game. If you're not up to it, or it's something you don't want to do, or you're just going through a low period, then that's OK, speak for yourself. But this piece is being read by a lot of still-in-school and barely-out-of-school aspiring founders. And you're feeding ageism, to their detriment, and to the detriment of everywhere they'll work. It's not unusual for teenagers with no real world experience to think they have all the answers, that their parents and adults aren't as smart or capable as them, etc. Fortunately, they grow out of it... Unless a startup incubator, that historically favors impressionable young boys, hands them a bunch of money, and tells them they are the best people to do a startup. And when said impressionable young boys are exposed to ever so slightly outside that messaging bubble, they see articles like this. And so the illegal, yet nigh-institutionalized, ageism persists. Sometimes, when I see one of these articles, I think at least it's a blessing that we're not seeing more self-appointed representatives of other groups who are discriminated against in employment, volunteering themselves, to go out of their way, to feed that, and screw over everyone else.