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I remember reading something about Nick D’Aloisio of Summly. I doubt a 15 y/o could get Wendi Murdoch, Ashton Kutcher and Yoko Ono as investors without his parents help, then sell the company to Yahoo! for 30 million, who immediately shut it down.

tl;dr Do what you're are bad at and get better over time.

Agile and learning continuously is not something that only programmers out of college can do. You can still do it while having a family, even.

With the Paris Review printing such things no wonder there is rampant ageism in the tech industry.

> That or your an idealist. And those prodigies have token seniority as described.

This is what I don't like about articles like this. It provides a language to put down and dehumanize others without offering anything positive.

29y/o CEO? Sociopath.

Coworker that's been promoted ahead of me? Idealist, just mere token seniority.

I'll earn more money than him by job hopping a few times anyways.

Yes. In my experience, co-workers who complain about management sociopaths are more likely to be the ones coveting their jobs.

More like Oracle from the Matrix movies. It's there to provide the illusion of choice.

Yes, but I will create a new account to do so.