I think I may be 56, hmm, still learning and producing
I started coding at 36, that means I have 20 years of experience, thats cool hey!
Learning to code at 56
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#133At 51, I've noticed there are really two kinds of people at my age... people who are completely beaten, and people who are winning. Once you hit 40 or so, the scope of mortality really hits you. You realize that you've probably already had half your productive life, maybe half a career. You start seeing peers die of "old age" - heart attacks and strokes and stuff. For most, they're beaten, defeated. They decide this…
How do you prioritize on medium to long term plans?
At 40+ I acutely realize how little time is left and how little one can accomplish.
Every day I am reminded on how quickly time passes and hevel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes) of it all.
Again, I enjoy the little things: the random coffee shop with my SO, my kids' smile, the view from the bridge when I am biking and so on.
But starting anything with longer term implications seems so useless.
Silly example: let's say I decided to learn to sing. I am truly tone-deaf and hilariously bad at singing. Maybe after years of constant practice I could approach some sort of basic proficiency but it would achieved at a cost of forsaking so many other experiences.
We have so little time that I have trouble making longer plans.
None of us have 10,000 years that Bill Murray had in Groundhog Day.
Re: Learning to code at 56
#134At 51, I've noticed there are really two kinds of people at my age... people who are completely beaten, and people who are winning. Once you hit 40 or so, the scope of mortality really hits you. You realize that you've probably already had half your productive life, maybe half a career. You start seeing peers die of "old age" - heart attacks and strokes and stuff. For most, they're beaten, defeated. They decide this…
51? Most men die at 25... we just don't bury them until they are 70. -- Benjamin Franklin
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#135At 51, I've noticed there are really two kinds of people at my age... people who are completely beaten, and people who are winning. Once you hit 40 or so, the scope of mortality really hits you. You realize that you've probably already had half your productive life, maybe half a career. You start seeing peers die of "old age" - heart attacks and strokes and stuff. For most, they're beaten, defeated. They decide this…
Thank you for this. I'm in my mid-30s and terrified that when I get older I'll turn into the beaten & defeated type that I myself have observed in some older people. I guess maybe my fear of losing my mojo is a hopeful indicator that I'll avoid such a fate. :)
Re: Learning to code at 56
#136At 51, I've noticed there are really two kinds of people at my age... people who are completely beaten, and people who are winning. Once you hit 40 or so, the scope of mortality really hits you. You realize that you've probably already had half your productive life, maybe half a career. You start seeing peers die of "old age" - heart attacks and strokes and stuff. For most, they're beaten, defeated. They decide this…
I am beaten at 30, sigh.
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#137My father (63, I think?) is starting to learn to code. I chose a decent beginner book for him (Python) and spent some time trying to figure out IDE situation would work best. But the places he stumbled were a total surprise to me.
He's never learned to type, imagine coding with hunt-and-peck. Characters like ()[]. he had no idea where to find. He didn't have much understanding of file systems; so things like saving and renaming were tricky.
Anyway, he was pretty thrilled with getting a "hello world" example and one that asks your name and prints out a greeting.
Re: Learning to code at 56
#138At 51, I've noticed there are really two kinds of people at my age... people who are completely beaten, and people who are winning. Once you hit 40 or so, the scope of mortality really hits you. You realize that you've probably already had half your productive life, maybe half a career. You start seeing peers die of "old age" - heart attacks and strokes and stuff. For most, they're beaten, defeated. They decide this…
So true, I started to become the latter when I turned 30 (now 33). People say I'm still relatively young and need to relax but I vehemently disagree with them. Life feels like it could end any second now. Time is of the essence.
Re: Learning to code at 56
#139At 51, I've noticed there are really two kinds of people at my age... people who are completely beaten, and people who are winning. Once you hit 40 or so, the scope of mortality really hits you. You realize that you've probably already had half your productive life, maybe half a career. You start seeing peers die of "old age" - heart attacks and strokes and stuff. For most, they're beaten, defeated. They decide this…
How do you prioritize on medium to long term plans? At 40+ I acutely realize how little time is left and how little one can accomplish. Every day I am reminded on how quickly time passes and hevel ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes ) of it all. Again, I enjoy the little things: the random coffee shop with my SO, my kids' smile, the view from the bridge when I am biking and so on. But starting anything with…
I think you should consider prioritizing medium-to-long term plans that will maximize the number of enjoyable little things you will have at the end of your life.
And about the particular example of learning to sing, about 2 years of deliberate practice with a good teacher will get you where you want to be, so, not that big of a commitment in the grand scheme of things, I'd say.
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#140At 51, I've noticed there are really two kinds of people at my age... people who are completely beaten, and people who are winning. Once you hit 40 or so, the scope of mortality really hits you. You realize that you've probably already had half your productive life, maybe half a career. You start seeing peers die of "old age" - heart attacks and strokes and stuff. For most, they're beaten, defeated. They decide this…
My dad's been working on his startup thats gone nowhere for a decade now. Reading your comment just instantly and drastically shifted how I perceive the value of him doing that.