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Ironically, the beauty of this article is that the title is wrong.

These 10 reasons are good at any age.

(Reminds me of the story of the 40 year old woman who was reluctant to go to medical school because she'd be 48 by the time she could open her own practice. Until someone asked her how old she'd be in 8 years if she DIDN'T go. She went.)



The content is wrong too.

"Your cost of failure is zero, not to say negative." -- no. Opportunity cost: enormous. But I guess this is where he invokes "Ignorance is bliss."


Instead of saying the cost of failure is zero, I think the author should have put it in terms of risk tolerance. In general, people younger in age have less to risk, thus 100% risk while younger < 100% risk when you're older.


Good point. Well, except for the family one -- imo, that's the biggest advantage of a 20-something over a 40-something.


Family and age are correlated, but not the same. Lots of 18 year old parents and 40 year old singles.




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