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I've had the pleasure of working with 60+ year old programmers. It is opposite of what you expect from the stereotypical mainstream opinions. I constantly go back to them, call them for lunch, go for walks, just so I can ask them questions about old days and how things used to work. There is so much to learn from hindsight, this knowledge is vanishing. Take advantage of learning from older people even though it doesn…
I find it interesting how stuff that was relevant for PCs in the 80s became relevant for early smartphones. I believe computing history often is cyclic in nature, so there is value in the old ways.
I always thought of any human progress like gradient descent algo. Hindsight is clear, and if current tools/services/methods/processes don't work, look at how it used to be done. Was it better objectively? May be we took a step in the wrong direction, go back and learn; try to take in a different direction, may be there is a higher ground ahead. It is also important to allow (and be tolerant) to experimentation in different directions because without it; we risk getting stuck in a local optima forever. Opposite of that is Chesterton's fence, there is a reason why we are on this hill, if you go back, it's a steep cliff.