[grabcocque]

Silicon Valley, in particular, has always seemed to me to fetishise the pseudo-legendary brilliant young school leaver overachiever superstar. Anyone who hasn't burned out by the time they hit 40 is clearly either lazy or an underachiever, and therefore not the sort of person we would want to hire.

The Valley's most cherished myths are amongst some of the most societally detrimental.

(Disclosure: I'm 40 and work in tech. This sort of thing gives me waking nightmares.)