People who dabble in this or that usually have “been there, done that” when it comes to things that have been around for a long time. There’s no scarcity of old people who’ve done it before, because there are plenty of old people who have swept it off their feet. Even if you’ve “done a little of this in the past,” if you haven’t done it recently, the opinion of someone who has “done a little of this recently” is more valuable
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