@alixkun

Of experience in tech: as I'm aging, lately I've been thinking about what being an experienced 40 something in tech means. Over the past 30 years or so, we've seen several changes in the industry. Growth methods, programming languages, hiring methods, task management methods, productivity tools...It also feels like the pace of change got faster. I feel like what in the past was a true asset (getting experience and confidence on a job) has now turned counter-productive. Being over-confident leads more than often to shutting oneself down to emerging innovation. Being experienced on a tech/product/meta that is outdated is at best irrelevant, at worst is a hurdle in your progression towards learning something new. We're in the era of constant learning, constant improvement and self-actualization. It's a thin line between reaping what's good in being experienced in something, and feeling too much pride about one's background and getting stuck in the past. In the era of TikTok marketing, your experience on Facebook ads is irrelevant. In the era of AI, your experience as a developer becomes more and more irrelevant. In the era of Unity & Unreal, your experience developing game engines is irrelevant. And the list goes on. It's an interesting time for milenial to grow in, I wonder what working in tech as a 50 years old milenial will look like...

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