Ask HN: The older you are, the more you want to see non-tech on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=978141
by amichail • 17 years ago
18 32 17 years ago

I suspect that the older you are, the more interests you have that have accumulated as a result of life experience.

Tech starts to look the same after you have seen so much of it. In fact, I think that the older you are, the less likely you are to browse through technical books in a bookstore/library.

Moreover, you would be more interested in topics such as consciousness partly out of intellectual curiosity and partly out of consideration of your own mortality.

Finally, I suspect that older readers are more tolerant of others expressing various theories that they have about all sorts of things -- even without citations. And this probably has something to do with placing greater value on life experience.

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