[notacoward]

> your value is not worth more than someone with less experience.

I don't think such a general statement (even its direct inverse) can be true or even particularly useful. At a certain point you're playing the odds. We're dealing with X, what's the chance that someone has seen X before or can see a connection to something else? In those situations, 20 years of varied experience can be a lot more valuable than 10 years of varied experience, especially if the 20 includes areas or approaches that have been forgotten/ignored for most of the last 10. (You'd be surprised how often the ebb and flow of tech fashion produces such results.) Note that I said can. Whether that actually happens depends on the exact technology, what experts you already have, team size/cohesion, etc. "Is not" without qualification expresses a more absolute and certain opinion than is warranted.

[xfitm3]

Let's not forget the essence of why we get paid: you are paid because someone likes you. They like your work output, your social skills, or your status.

I'm not as hungry as a intern but I present well, and at the end of the day, thats why I get paid.

[mistermann]

"In order to be successful, one must project an image of success at all times."

– Buddy Kane, American Beauty

I doubt many people know this explicitly, but I think the necessary behavior is intuitive to lots of people. I suspect people "on (or near) the spectrum", which is far more common in tech circles, get their ass handed to them career wise many times because of this, because they are in some sense looking at a different version of reality than other people.