Oh, my, that resonates. I’m all of 48 — but also balding and gray — and I feel *ancient* when I go to my hip, downtown co-working establishment to work on my aspiring startup. Same thing when I go to tech meetups or events. (Strange, too, given that my wife is 13 years older than I am, so I should somehow feel perpetually young.) At least in my day…

Jay,

You raise a bunch of good points. First off, yes, football players are way more fucked than basketball players. And I probably am selling short the overseas experience. Certainly there’s money there to be made and whether or not an athlete feels disappointment over not making the NBA is a case-by-case, individual thing…

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Let me understand what you are proposing, Jazi. In order to not discriminate you must have data that the discriminated against group is just as good or better, by some metric, than those who are not discriminated against? Is this really what you’re proposing?

I think that the issue is not so much about age diversity as age mentality. I’ve spoken to many people who are trying to either reinvent or completely change their career in the hope of adapting to this brave new digital world. Some, unsurprisingly, are faring far better than others. Those who are doing well seem to have a similar mindset: they want…

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I think the ageism reflects two deeper issues with the tech industry- the apparent shortage of applicable experiences, and the skepticism/disrespect about them.

These two are related. Because the overall work force skews young- we are producing and admitting more programmers today than 30 years ago. And the startup scene is…