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This is a snippet I jotted down from listening to a podcast with Tim Ferriss on his ways to cope with various overloads, including information. The remark in the title asks why work until you are 65 then become fully retired? Start to take some of that now. I got cut short of hearing the whole interview but will get back to it.
Given that there are about 7 billion people at the moment, my answer to this question was about 15 billion. Here I was thinking about exponential growth, but I was way off. The estimated value is just over 100 billion. The article sets out to debunk something of a myth in population studies
One reason the question keeps coming up is that somewhere, at some time back in the 1970s, a now-forgotten writer made the statement that 75 percent of the people who had ever been born were alive at that moment.
Market predictions from the man himself, Lou Seefer, with a short excerpt below
Larry: Now I’m guessing you are a pretty traditional guy Lou. What’s your take on all this Internet technology?
Lou: Couldn’t support it more Larry. One of our big plays is to convince people that the place to be is “on top of things” rather than “at the bottom of things” – that is, to focus on the fleeting, not the foundational. It’s a win-win situation: people get to find a few cheap holidays and outsmart their doctor on something like the glycemic index, while we get mindshare that nothing is really relevant unless it arrives in your mailbox personally addressed to you as part of a competition.
Larry: Short term memory can be measured in mouse clicks.
Lou: Precisely. History becomes a hobby, not a lesson.
This is just a quick analogy between IT Security and high school teachers.
High school teachers have a very difficult job, that all parents agree is very important to do well. Parents want teachers to be both saints and sages, and often to be modestly renumerated for these qualities both in respect and financial reward. IT security has similar characteristics in that the complexity of performing this role is increasing while at the same time its perceived value is decreasing.
