[silisili]

That's a pretty inexperienced take, out of context. People should absolutely learn from elders, even if they feel the elders are wrong. Which is pretty much, every young person who has ever existed. There are often nuggets of wisdom buried inside resistance to change.

I often wonder how much further along we'd be as a society if we didn't spend the first couple decades thinking we know everything. Myself included.

[nl]

"Wisdom" of elders should stand on its own by being well reasoned.

If someone needs to say "listen to your elders" then they aren't able to articulate their argument well enough to stand without it.

(I've been programming much longer than the 32 years claimed by the article author. No one should listen to me because I'm old, except in the case where I'm talking about specific incidents I witnessed that younger people didn't.)

[silisili]

> except in the case where I'm talking about specific incidents I witnessed that younger people didn't

All in interpretation. I implicitly assume 'listen to your elders' is about experience, not age. Perhaps others read that differently.

I don't think anyone is arguing a young PHD should do what an old chimney sweep tells him just because he's older. Unless of course said advice applies to PHD somehow.

[WHATDOESIT]

The problem is that it's what inexperienced elders say to force their opinion on you.