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It’s incredibly hard not to be a life-stage cliche on general topics I’ll see some 33 year old say something that sounds eerily similar to something I think I’ve said and whaddya know I look back and I said something uncannily similar when I was 33
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Ascent to Botitude “Does this mean I have to be replaced by a very small shell script dad?” “No son, it means you get to”
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According to this I’m heading towards rock bottom of my 10-year U-curve in the next couple of years. I plan on dialing up the complaining on here to 11
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I’m only 46, but did you read Jonathan Rauch’s book article about the tendency towards 40s depression and automatic happy 50s that had parallels in great apes? Helpful for decoding and accepting the cliches. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi
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Why is the age at which scientists or inventors achieve their moment of genius increasing? In part to the increasing burden of knowledge: there is much more to master before making a contribution to a field Half of all pioneering contributions in science now happen after age 40.
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