I believe LC wasn't a thing back then, or at least not mainstream.

I don't waste my time on LC now. If I get free time, I'd rather work on a personal project or hobby.

Granted, I'm actually thinking of moving into some sort of corporate strategy analyst role since I don't really get to code anymore. The past 2 years has been very little coding or business problem solving. It's mostly been config, infrastructure, prod support, and meetings/paperwork. I'm tired of it. I want to solve problems and build substantial things. I assume I'm rusty when it comes to coding now.

Oh, I didn't realize you were talking about a time long ago.

Yeah, I'm old. That was 10+ years ago.

Nah, you're a youngster.

You're only as old as you feel. I feel like I'm ancient.

A friend of mine who died recently worked on Stretch at IBM. Later, he was one of the early employees of a hot cloud computing startup, in 01968.

Yeah, but there's increasingly no place for me in the working world. I'm decent at a lot of things, but not an expert. I'm no longer relevant.

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