Continuous learning...

Continuous learning...  Dave Jilk has a great essay on how accelerating technological change necessitates continuous learning, and how that impacts folks as they age.  The essay is generalizing, and I'm sure Jilk would be the first to agree there are plenty of exceptions to what he's describing.  What he calls "continuous learning" is what I'd call "my hobby", and I'm going to declare myself an exception – one of quite a few that I know – to his rule about how older people handle technological change.  But in the more general case, what he writes rings very true...