[mattbrewsbytes]

I remember disillusionment in my 30's. I think this comes about when you have enough experience to realize there are a lot of people out there that have no clue what they are doing, people just going thru the motions.

You mentioned truly revolutionary things in computers that maybe a handful of people worked on. There were hundreds, maybe thousands of developers working on COBOL business systems dealing with PM's and MBA types in the 80's and 90's too.

Take some chances and bootstrap something into a business now.

[JoeAltmaier]

Talking about a handful of people - in the 80's we created the CTOS operating system and desktop computers (pre-dated the IBM PC). The whole OS, through the entirety of its existence, was worked on by 12 people.

The entire support organization was much larger. In Japan for instance, it was sold and supported through an organization of 1200 people. I always marveled at that - there were 100+ support people just for the work I did.