Nor have I, it sounds fairly arbitrary to me. I don't think a global society that's structured the proper way need have a maximum population limit. If energy becomes cheaper and cheaper, like with breakthroughs in solar, wind, nuclear, storage, fusion, then it seems to me we could easily support 10 billion people's food and resource needs, given a circular economy which is highly efficient. There's also asteroid mining, carbon capture, vertical farming, high density living like in Asia...there are a lot of efficiencies to be gained in how our population lives.
It's interesting to think about. For instance, how much space do we need per capita? If we were to pack everyone together giving each a 2ft by 2ft space, the current population would take up the space of a large county or two. That's rather fascinating to think about because it isn't a large amount of space. Obviously it isn't sustainable, but our physical size is small. But then you start factoring in food, shelter, water, mental well-being, etc... It would just be interesting to find out how much space we really need per capita thinking along those lines.
It's referenced in the Countdown book I mention, which includes citations. The author excludes the book from the Internet Archive OpenLibrary, so I can't directly cite the page. I'll have to reply back later when I can grab the book and find the page and citation it refers back to.
But on a serious note, even though my SO and I are doing very well economically (both engineers), it's still weighs heavy the thought of having a child with how expendable engineers are these days.
> it's still weighs heavy the thought of having a child with how expendable engineers are these days.
If you're working in some sort of Information technology, you're one of the least expendable employees in the labor market, at least as of March 2020. Only government and finance have lower layoff rates: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.t05.htm
I mean expendable in the sense that as an employee you can just be thrown away if the market dips. Sure, you can maybe find more work, but you probably would have to uproot (not everyone lives in SV) and that's not easy with kids. My parents did that and it sucked; 8 different schools from elementary to high school.
It might get tricky when you have home grown terrorists walking around with long guns shouting that it violates some right they think they have to not wear them.
You probably know this, but for others, onion (and other veggies) freeze well. I'll usually chop up most of the bag and put all of it in freezer bags and freeze laying flat (breaking them up during the freezing process to they stay loose). It is then easy to pour out half cup or whatever the recipe calls for.
>... recommend to a business focused founder for them to grok the hacker mindset.
From 1000 ft, what's different between the two? It's all about solving problems.
The business focused founder sees a problem, a business/market opportunity. He/She needs to figure out how to solve it, how to come up with a way to satisfy that market. If a product exists, how do they get that product into the hands of the customer. If the product doesn't exist, how to get it into existence and then get it into the hands of the customer.
The hacker/developer/whatever sees a problem and He/She tries to develop a product that satisfies that problem based on the requirements they're either given or suss out themselves. The hacker mindset is an insatiable need for knowledge. How to do a thing. How to make a thing. How did others make a thing. Don't business people think that way, also? Probably one big difference might be that the hacker mindset shares knowledge. Business people are more protective of it. (Generally)
I would add that most folks who go into business are motivated primarily by seeing the dollars appear, while most "hackers" I know are primarily motivated by the rush they get when they've understood the new problem/solution.
That's painting with broad strokes obviously and a person can be motivated by both. But that's the axis I would draw the distinction on.
Where does this come? Is it referenced in the books you mention? I just have never heard this before.