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Also, the risks of NOT getting doses of education later in life.
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There's other things to learn besides coding. I know grandmas who turned into successful retirement food bloggers :)
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Agree plasticity and other constraints limit, but we're *far* from maxing out learning limit.
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From ones I've met, the big hangup in learning after 40 is not lack of learning ability, but unwillingness to accept lower status
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cognitive limits are like 10x higher than "this is beneath me, I can't start again so low" limits.
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Industrial age adult re-education has been downcycling rather than re/upcycling of humans, but that's the system, not the people
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Learning a CMS IS education. I realized that when I tried teaching WP and realized how much I'd learned that was mystery to others
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That's a theme for a future newsletter. Work != income != jobs. Both equations are breaking.
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The big structural factor is lifestyle rigidity, mostly from kids, health insurance etc.
