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I think if I had a great deal of money, I'd skip flying first class a few times per year and "tenure" guys like John by giving him a few $k/month and telling hi

I think if I had a great deal of money, I'd skip flying first class a few times per year and "tenure" guys like John by giving him a few $k/month and telling him to go work on whatever he wanted. Just seeing what he came up with each year would be far more entertaining than another beach vacation somewhere.

ChuckMcM 14y ago
Some friends and I muse about what it would take to create a home for people like John during their twilight years. Its very challenging. There aren't a lot of high tech jobs that pay pensions, and the retirement money is very unevenly distributed around. Not a lot of folks think about that now, but someday, maybe sooner than we would like, some icon of computing history is going to get rousted out of a homeless shelter on national TV. I don't look forward to that day, not at all.