I have a project with a 20 something and he’s an idiot. His mistakes are amateurish. I’ve worked for larger software houses before and a kid like this wouldn’t have made it a couple of weeks.

I apparently have reached the age that I am starting to get numerous recruitment offers on LinkedIn, saying that they are seeking to “add maturity” to a startup team.

When I worked at EA I was considerably older than nearly everyone else in the department, and certainly the oldest of my peers. In the majority of cases, I was literally old enough to be their father.