Is 30 Too Old To Be A Web Visionary?

Ah, your Twenties – when your invincibility nearly reaches the heights of your arrogance. How I miss them, when I was certain any moment Oprah would call to recognize my brilliance, and my bedroom had a revolving door.

Is 30 Too Old To Be A Web Visionary?

But I'm not dumber, or less in-tune with things, or limited in creativity. In fact, I'd say I'm better than I used to be at everything except jumping. That's not arrogance. That's confidence. I'm smarter, more experienced, less apt to be impulsive and have learned more about how the world works.

I'm responsible, mostly because now other people rely on me, rather than just me relying on myself.

The preceding speech is inspired by a recent blogospheric spat that came to a head over the weekend, pitting old against young – a classic battle, really, an "age-old," if you'll forgive the pun, tale spanning back even to the Old Testament, where conscientious older observers look back and laugh at the ignorance and capriciousness of their youth, and laugh harder as they watch the once-immortal turn 30.

With Thirty comes the epiphany: I really don't know everything. I'm just really good at blowin' smoke.

The debate begins with venture capitalist blogger

It is incredibly hard to think of new paradigms when you've grown up reading the newspaper every morning. When you turn to TV for your entertainment. When you read magazines on the train home from work.

Though he made a few

Heh. He used the "A" word.