gentle navelgazing

What's it like to be a middle-aged gamer? With the age of the Atari and NES, we are smack in the middle of the first generation who has had video gaming as a hobby, in their home, for their entire living memory. Here's a little bit about what that means to me for my present and the future.

A couple months back, I read in Wired (in hard copy, no less, because I'm one of those weirdos) Clive Thompson's column "The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding". It resonated with me at the time, but I sat on the article until I could also link to it, and now it's too late to really weigh in on it, because as soon as it hit the web it blew up. The post has nearly 125k shares on Facebook as I write this, in fact, and way more Facebook comments than any of their recent posts that don't involve America's President.