Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection

Re:Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection by asdff on Friday April 03, 2026 @03:29PM (#47631050)

I think wisdom is pretty unevenly learned and its not a guarantee 32 or 42 year olds or 82 year olds have it either. See our well aged POTUS. Either way you don't need wisdom to start working. So many of the "best" minds in various fields started working in that field at like 16, maybe dropped out of college and dug right in. Their initial intellect or specific circumstances allowed them to skip the normal path but really I think a lot of people would have a lot more success if more were allowed to start on real work earlier, and weren't being held back by process like this.

Again, just kind of sucks that you finally hit your stride in your career right as you feel your body and faculties declining with age. I don't think we get senile as soon as people notice you are definitely senile. I think it is a constant slide.

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Re:Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection by leptons on Friday April 03, 2026 @06:53PM (#47633377)

It seems like you think you have it all figured out, but you don't.

>So many of the "best" minds in various fields started working in that field at like 16,

Name them. Also, child prodigies exist but that doesn't mean the rest of us are dummies. You'd also be hard-pressed to find a child prodigy or someone like that as you suggest that is "at the top of their field" that doesn't think someone else is better than they are. There is no real "at the top of their field" in anything.

The only thing that I can detect that has diminished in my old age is my patience for pointless internet interactions like this one. I have better things to do. Goodbye.

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Re:Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection by bcjdjsndon on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @12:38PM (#47692611)

> It seems like you think you have it all figured out, but you don't.

This is a better summation of you than him

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