As someone in my early 20s, I can say the young innovator myth also severely hurts the youth.
When you're told you need to achieve X by 30, you may end up destroying relationships, having health issues and depression.
When you're told you need to achieve X by 30, you may end up destroying relationships, having health issues and depression.
He joined Microsoft in 1988 , when he was 46 , to work on the NT kernel. No doubt he had a many brilliant achievements before that , but his greatest work came in his 40s. Something the youth obsessed programmers of today should remember.
Of course, some people may be faster and some slower..
Bill Gates, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg do not.
Interestingly, of those, Bezos was the MBA manager, the rest were all programmers.
Also you need to waste a lot of time writing a thesis (I'm talking about the nitty-gritty process of coming up with the words and fighting TeX or worse, MS Word) that essentially is worth the paper it's printed on.
(well at least Campus life is better than sharing a flat with 3 other people with questionable hygiene habits)
There's a certain insanity to counting off risk because of something you think will happen. People seem to do it too much.