Almost always, when a 20-year-old and a 60-year-old work together, the 60-year-old is in a position of authority over the 20-year-old. Maybe this should be reversed sometimes?https://twitter.com/s_r_constantin/status/1217221033515634689 …
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In our current world, young people (<40) who especially want autonomy and dislike subordinate positions gravitate to lives surrounded exclusively by other young people, and that's probably not healthy.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
Hmm, I dunno. I would say depends. Silicon Valley has ALOT of examples of young “mentoring” old, and I have never seen it work out. If you mean having “the beginners mind” be infused into set ways, that’s certainly healthy, but thats agnostic to age anyway.
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I basically never see an <45 manager with an >50 direct report. The one time I did, the >50 guy got fired for arguing with his boss too much, which seemed unfair to me at the time. What have you seen?
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Common in SV to see 20 somethings without management experience “manage” a 60 something specialist who’s sole purpose was to solve some problem and impart wisdom but isn’t allowed to, or simply not listened to. Lots of money being wasted on this type of situation.
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Ah, I see. That indeed sounds terrible.
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