[nickpleis]

I certainly am.

I was a fairly quick riser in my career. I started programming at 12, had a commercial game (value-ware CD) published at 17. Wrote a book at 21. I was a lead architect at 24, with a development team of around 30 folks at a fairly successful company. I was quite sure that I knew it all at that point.

I didn't. I just turned 30 and only 6 years later my level of knowledge and experience is far superior to what it was then. Not just in terms of pure programming knowledge, but also in terms of decision making. I've become far more practical and much more adept at translating requirements into something people can actually use.

30 year old me and 24 year old me wouldn't see eye-to-eye on a lot of things. After leaving that job I've become an entrepreneur. The sum of that experience makes me far more productive and the quality of what I make is simply better.

24 year old me could a learn a thing or two from 30 year old me. Just as I hope 30 year old me will need a good talking to by 40 year old me:)