> He’s 55, and still learning new stuff, every day. Why wouldn't you? I'm not retired, and I still pick up new skills and hobbies all the time, too. It's the s

> He’s 55, and still learning new stuff, every day. Why wouldn't you? I'm not retired, and I still pick up new skills and hobbies all the time, too. It's the spice of life. 55 isn't particularly old either. My mother's partner is pushing 75 and in the middle of diving from scratch into SDR and building out a little mesh network. You'll also find that people who excel in FOSS communities are typically great self-directed learners and good at picking goals. It's survivorship bias in the sense that FOSS communities are bad at task assignment, so you more or less have to bring motivation and picking-directions skills. It's why I like to hire from the FOSS community (with some caveats). If you are able to provide and environment where they can stroll around your codebase/product and improve things, instead of staying in their lane, they generally will.