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Age is a just a number. John Carmack created Doom in his early 20s.

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That's a weird take. You don't think Carmack 2020 is wiser than Carmack 1993?

He is currently working on artificial general intelligence.

Every good rule has an exception.

Why not judge people by the result of their work, instead of their age?

Because then it’s harder to deal with our own imposter syndromes if we can’t blame it on the youth and hold their heads in the toilet while giving them the professional-development equivalent of a wedgie.

This was discussed at length in last week’s “Grey Beard Weekly” newsletter.

So the "old people" are the bad guys for you, hmm.

Then again, it's mostly "old people" who are discriminated against when it comes to hiring.

It seems so, and the fact that people are accusing me of ageism as I pointed out that a company hires only people below 24 years of age is very telling...

You didn't point that out, you made a vague complaint about someones age, and the comment you replied to doesn't even give you a good basis to assume that, so it's no wonder nobody understood what you tried to hint at. Hint: in many companies, a project involves only a small part of the workforce.

So the "old people" are the bad guys for you, hmm.

Yea that was snark, bud. Doesn't always translate well over text, admittedly.

But no, not the "bad guys". That's an interesting conclusion you've arrived at.

Now that you have advertised the newsletter. Maybe share a link too.

There isn't a newsletter. It was tongue in cheek.

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