Maybe this is how kids talk these days. There is going to be some Millenial who is a math genius an order of magnitude beyond Terry Tao, and what if they talk like this? Such things are going to happen. I find it amusing.
I live overseas and have no reason to talk to kids so I'm totally out of touch with the "real Millenial generation". But I want to know how they talk and think about things. I tried "Millenials react to X" videos but nothing is that useful.
I don't think it's very good if I'm totally out of touch or don't understand the Millenial generation at all. For me ( 80s so that's a gen-x-er? ) Millenials really seem like an important generation to understand...they grew up with the internet. They act differently online to the rest of us ( more privacy conscious and so on ). It's frustrating that I can't find any first-hand sources or interviews to see how they think and talk -- except things that are parody / making fun of it...or just theorizing by "experts".
The other side of this is about inspiration. I realized that as I got older, my "generational culture" ( for want of a better word ) is basically static. The shows, the movies, the music, the people, the scene, the lifepaths, opinions and ideas of peers...it's all just...so familiar. So boringly familiar. And unchanging.
Only the new generations can really have some vibrance, vitality and fresh inspiration, in a very organic sense, in my opinion. Not just fresh relative to another, static generational culture, but somehow inherently fresh and inspiring. It really makes me appreciate youth in a way I didn't before. As, if nothing else, this source of a fresh way of looking at the world. I also think that youth who grew up in the last 17 years, have to be some of the most interesting, or somehow express the most faithful reflections our world right now -- because they were literally shaped by all the huge changes that Earth has gone through -- Western political changes, rise of China, terrorism, social media. So I think to some extent if people want to understand the world we live in now, we have to understand the generation that grew up shaped by it.
I'm 22, so I suppose I'm a 'kid' to some here, and I stopped reading this very quickly. It's not funny, clever, or well-written.
The text certainly didn't inspire me to enable JS so I could see the code or images.
I think it's a shame we seem to be veering ever more toward 'code is all that matters' (or whatever the product of work is if not code) - not writing, presentation, communication, etc. - the result is rampant unprofessionalism.
