Don Denoncourt on Aging in IT and Being a Lifelong Learner

Published: Oct. 30, 2017, midnight

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to Don Denoncourt about remaining an engineer as one ages.\n\nWhy listen to this podcast:\n\n\u2022\tLooking back over history and programming language changes since the early 1980\u2019s\n\u2022\tThe importance of lifelong learning and putting your personal time into remaining relevant and up to date with new development platforms \n\u2022\tNew graduates get to work on new things because they have just learned about them and they are prepared to take the lower paid roles than \u201cexperienced\u201d people\n\u2022\tIf ongoing learning is not fun, then maybe you are in the wrong profession\n\u2022\tThe unconscious bias against older workers in a few teams and how they miss out on great insights \n\u2022\tSome advice for oldies and youngies working together\n\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ http://bit.ly/2ltre65\n\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq\n\nSubscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq\nLike InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8\nFollow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ\nFollow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq\nWant to see extented shownotes? Check the landing page on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2ltre65