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Are you close to a big tech hub? If you are not close try and get as close as possible. Crash with a fried or relative.

Another option is to contact Profs at CS/CE Depts at universities preferably with Startup Incubators attached. The one's that have funding for projects have a hard time finding experienced people. You might get a part time gig that turns into something long term.

You might like Infinite Powers (Steven Strogatz) and Faraday, Maxwell, and The Electromagnetic Field (Nancy Forbes)

> I saw the unrelenting pressure investors put on insurers to spend less paying out claims

Once your org has made bank, owns a chunk of the market, margins are stable, and things are coasting and self sustaining push the rent collecting investors out.

See how Disney recently dealt with Nelson Peltz.

Thats the playbook. Don't be a Robot reciting but but I have to please the investor till the heat death of the universe.

> Lifespan differences among these slow-growing groups were sizable. Even the slow growers with the shortest lifespans lived an average 204 years. But the longest-lived trees grew for 1,724 years, on average

Thats just crazy.

Its not gone. Its evolving and adapting to changing conditions. As it always has done through out history.

These complex problems and how society reacts are not new, if you know some history. They just look different today through the lens of info overload, and the engagement driven Attention capture economics.

There is this weird dynamic, attention economics produces, were the number of people talking about a complex problem, vastly outstrips the carrying capacity of society for number of people who can work on a complex problem.

An artist once told me some people enjoy Making Contact with Beauty. In the Simplest of things. And that can become a goal or a guiding philosophy.

It's like when you look at a facial expression in a frame of Calvin & Hobbes or Tintin or Miyazaki it is extremely SIMPLE.

The fewest of dots, dashes and squiggles basically. Change them even a little and you get total shit.

It captures Reality in such a fantastic way, exciting the exact same neurons in your head that something real does, that people have to come up with words for it like - Beauty.

Has all the tech that has been produced over the last few decades caused a drop in prices of the big ticket items in life housing, education, healthcare, security/defense, oil/gas?

In theory science and tech, knowledge and info exploding is supposed to cause prices to drop. But in practice we see many counterintuitive things happening cuz everyone's interests aren't aligned. We live in a reality where things oscillate back and forth between different interests.

So if you look at Central Banking history you can even find examples(Volcker, Japan) were goal post can shift from price stability to price reduction. But thats just a reaction to context. And Central Banks will react depending on changing environments, unless we have some totally new economic thinking emerge.