New music, fashion, start-up companies – they come disproportionately from younger people. There is a theory – I first heard it from Paul Graham – that innovation comes from younger people because they haven’t yet learned what they are not supposed to be able to do.

Adora Svitak reminds us why old people suck.

I remember my first life crisis when I turned 26 because I had already passed the age where Newton and Einstein did their most famous work.