After 10 Years in Tech Isolation, I’m Now Outsider to Things I Once Had Mastered

> I had to ask my twelve-year-old daughter what a hashtag was. That was pretty embarrassing. “Aren’t you supposed to be a hacker or something?,” she told me, sending a final blow to my dying ego.

There's a bright side there, too: you get a fresh perspective and can see how much utter bullshit is taken for granted because "thats the way things are done". Plus the confidence of having mastered things as complex, to arm you for the challenge of wading through the modern rats nests.