Read the comments at the site... They are so derisive that, some one who is old, could have something interesting to say, and might possibly be relative to them, is so far beyond their conception....I weep for our country.......
At 58 I’m blessed to be collaborating on projects with an 88-year-old control systems engineer in Switzerland, an 82-year-old former nuclear plant designer in Florida, a 77-year-old ex-GE systems engineer in Phoenix, a 75-year-old developer of one of the original relational database systems, an 80-year-old who developed automated software to repair Y2K-challenged software back in the day, and a 76-year-old former protege of Frank Lloyd Wright. These old farts keep on doing great stuff.
Barbara Saunders says:[Underlining added.]
August 12, 2012 at 9:20 pm
Extraordinary people came out of the old education system. Extraordinary people come out of the present education system. Ordinary and mediocre people were and are the majority. I think part of the problem today as in the past is that non-conformers pay a price. Even people who claim to value creativity tend to habitually enforce conformity and extract that price. It is rare for people to brave enough to follow their own drummer – and to do so without letting bitterness and rebellion poison the well.
She hit the nail right on the head. All too many times, valuable non-conformity is frittered away in rebelliousness and bitterness. The people who moved the world in tech weren't bitter or rebellious; they were just plain enthusiastic.
I have to confess that I had, and have, trouble on this front. Whoever Barbara Saunders is, she's very wise.
I read through the comments (over 350 of them). They are almost all positive. You must be looking in a different place.