Unrequested (and Poor) Advice from Young Inexperienced Folk with better SEO
Is it just me, or do I immediately ignore well ranked 'advice' articles (on HN or other social sites) from relatively young entrepreneurs.
My attitude is, if someone under 30 wrote the article, you can pretty much ignore the advice they offer completely. Often, they offer advice when all I hear is 'youthful indiscretions' and already obvious shit I'd already figured...
Seriously, if you're under 30, you shouldn't consider that anyone will look to you as 'experienced' or even world-wise.
All we see is someone better as SEO and ranking high on social networks, which just erodes the only real benefit of being deemed an 'expert', especially in an unrelated field.
Leave wisdom to the old. Stick to educating the old to what's 'hip'. We'll ignore it anyway, but look interested while you tell us it's 'cool'.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 18.8 ms ] threadHonestly, I know what you are getting at but I think what you miss is that some of the greatest minds in tech made the most impact before 30, and lots of good businessmen and entrepreneurs younger than 30 make it every year.
I speak with some bias because of my age, but just because people are under a certain threshold do not underestimate the value they can bring to a conversation or product.
It's not always about how old you are or how much money you've made (though if you'd like to get in that pissing match I'd welcome you in my case) In truth, just about everyone can bring value to a conversation if you listen with an open mind and take no word as the gospel you will come away much better for it.
All this was basically to say if you are not happy with advice from certain groups of people don't accept it, but I for one am glad people decided to listen to guys like Woz, Jobs and Gates well before 30. Without those open minds the world would probably be an entirely different place. And not for the better
This thing rebuts itself.