[hindsightbias]

The generation in-between is Generation Jones, to which I regard myself the anti-thesis of that.

In my 20's, my work environment was literally refered to as pirates vs dinosaurs. I learned that the dinosaurs had a lot to teach and that a lot of pirates weren't willing to go too deep. Easily intimidated. If you were willing to go deeper into things your peers were afraid of, you could make quite a nice niche for yourself.

>and usually screw it up when they try

Best advice I got when I was 24: "kid, you need to screw up enought to get noticed"