Again, I am not prejudiced or anything. This is just a fact that I have accepted.
Edit: are you downvoting my comment because you think this is bad practice (which I agree to) OR are you saying my view of the reality is wrong?
as defined by Silicon Valley. There are plenty of roles outside of SV for the gray hairs.
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/assigned/robpike
1. staying healthy
2. finding inspiration in your work
3. finding an employer that values the strengths and accommodates the limitation of older brains.
Grey of hair, ye need not despair.
I've only seen this occur to people who failed to keep their skills up to date and failed to keep growing their abilities commensurate to their number of years of experience. Demand is still tremendous for people who are experienced and competent.
Neither reading that wiki page nor quick googling helped me find examples of the two different styles.
*None love the bearer of bad news* --SophoclesAge discrimination exists, but it's not really the reason there are so few 55 year olds in software today. That's simply because very very few people in the 1980s took up a career in software. The industry was orders of magnitude smaller!
I've worked in multiple places that had absolutely zero problem hiring people in their 50s - when we were lucky enough to find people that experienced.