<story><title>Old Age and Creativity</title><url>https://inference-review.com/article/old-age-and-creativity</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>Like many of these types of sweeping inferences, I suspect that the devil is in the details.&lt;p&gt;Namely, &lt;i&gt;what&lt;/i&gt;, exactly, is being measured?&lt;p&gt;Everybody changes, as we age. I&amp;#x27;m almost 60, and, as I look back on my yute (I live in New York, so I have to use the correct lingo), I am amazed at what an addlepated, compulsive, reactive, emotion-driven, knucklehead I was. When I think about what I considered &amp;quot;earth-shatteringly important ideals&amp;quot; back then, I wince. What a waste of energy.&lt;p&gt;It would be easy to say that I was &amp;quot;more creative&amp;quot; back then, because I had diarrhea of the mouth. You couldn&amp;#x27;t shut me up, and I was always spouting pseudo-intellectual claptrap. I guess, for some people, they would have considered me to be &amp;quot;a creative intellectual.&amp;quot; I also spit out a lot of rather naive little projects and artworks; crowing at each one, as if it were &lt;i&gt;The Mona Lisa&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I probably would have thought I was just a jerk.&lt;p&gt;These days, &lt;i&gt;I get stuff done&lt;/i&gt;. That does mean a lot of compromises, and acceptance of limitations. I don&amp;#x27;t tilt at windmills, anymore. I hook generators to them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Old Age and Creativity</title><url>https://inference-review.com/article/old-age-and-creativity</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jleyank</author><text>How many academic scientists end up being buried in managing science, particularly seeking funding?  There’s way fewer aristocrats funding scientists as they would a zoo.  Maybe the most visible advances come from those hungry enough and with time enough to do it?&lt;p&gt;Some of these older fellows trained a lot of students, such as bethe or wheeler.  How old were the bell labs people when they did plan 9?  Is Knuth still considered active?    Maybe also, art is subjective while physics or engineering “just is”</text></comment>