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A friend’s husband was laid off, and he had trouble finding another job. Was he unskilled? Hardly–he has a Stanford MBA and an engineering Ph.D. The real problem, they realized, is that he was the father of two boys in college, and dressed that way. My friend gave her husband a makeover–new haircut, trendy jeans, … Continue reading Silicon Valley, Ageism, and Hipster Jeans
Doug Engelbart’s recent passing elicited glowing eulogies for the computing pioneer who gave “The Mother of All Demos” in 1968, introducing the mouse, videoconferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and real-time collaboration all in a single hour-long talk: http://bit.ly/16EGGZn Amazing, right? Yet lost in all the accolades was … Continue reading Doug Engelbart and ageism in Silicon Valley