His mission: Meet 10k people, one at a time, for an hour at a time
One way to consider this is in terms of attention, the ultimately nonfungible resource:  you can pay attention to only one thing at a time, seach moment must be experienced, none can be called back.<p>If you live to 80 and devote your adult life from 20 onwards to meeting people, if you meet 10,000 people, you can devote about 50 hours to each of them -- a little over two days.  That&#x27;s sleeping or waking, working or resting.<p>The US House of Representatives has 435 members (add the hundred senators -- and 3 DC electors -- to get the famous 538 electoral college votes), each representing something like 720,000 citizens.  Given a 2 year term, this means that each representative can devote a net total of ... just under 90 seconds per constituent.<p>If you wanted to dedicate your adult life to meeting everyone <i>currently</i> alive on Earth, 7.3 billions, you can dedicate just over a quarter second to each.<p>At the same time, in every second, there are 215 years of human experience lived, 14,000 years per minute, 830,000 years per hour, and 20 million years per day.  Rounding somewhat.<p>How much of that experience can be distinct and individual, how much is shared?  What are the consequences of forced attention, as with advertising, or with forced isolation?<p>How much <i>can</i> we know, and pass on, culturally?  Is there  a net effective intergenerational knowledge transfer bandwidth limit, and how close to that (or exceeding it) are we?  How is that shared between culture, personal, technical, and poetic knowledge?