a good quote from the article: "The way to avoid the same fate as the previous generation’s industrial workers is to continue to learn, grow, and gain skills that are valuable beyond the very particular skill you have now."

I am in my 60s, and while I still work on interesting projects as they come my way, the majority of my "tech time" is now spent studying and learning new things or doing deeper study of older technology. I consider myself to be very fortunate to have the financial resources and time to do this! I used to use neural networks in the 1980s for projects for SAIC and DARPA and in the last few years (like millions of other people) I have become very interested in deep learning, especially as it applies to natural language processing. This is a practical thing to study. Less practical: I am taking a deeper dive into Common Lisp and Scheme (I wrote books on each language for Springer-Verlag decades ago) studying not just practical applications but also getting deeper into both languages. This is not so beneficial financially but is a lot of fun.