Young and Delusional: How Under-30 Teams Built NASA, Macintosh, and Fairchild
sahilypatel · x · 2026-08-09
The post highlights that the core teams behind history's most groundbreaking tech and engineering projects were surprisingly young. The average age of NASA's mission control and the original Macintosh team was under 26, while the Manhattan Project and Fairchild Semiconductor's 'traitorous eight' averaged 31. Xerox PARC researchers were also under 30. The author argues that giving young, 'delusional' people real responsibility is the key to changing the world.
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