[ExI] Well-roundedness and character

[William Flynn Wallace]

What should I be doing?

spike
You should be recommending an essay collection of Asimov's.  Conservative?
Liberal?  Mixed? Mostly political?  Mostly not?    Thanks!   bill w

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 1:23 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > On Behalf Of MB via extropy-chat
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Well-roundedness and character
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> >...Congrats to Isaac, Spike. :) His hard work is showing.   Asimov would
> be
> pleased.
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> Regards,
> MB
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> Thanks MB, and thanks also for referencing Asimov.  He is the writer I
> would
> say influenced me more than any other, but not from his SciFi (which I
> found
> suffered in comparison to others of his age (but rather from his many works
> of non-fiction (specifically the essay collections.)))
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> I feel like I should be doing something, but I have no contacts in
> academia.
> I showed him my differential equations book from college, a subject over
> which I sweated bullets after three years of college math, including the
> calculus series.  He is tearing through that like a hot chainsaw thru
> butter.  So I scanned and archived the pages of his notebook, to show that
> yea verily, there are talented 8th graders who can get this stuff.  MB, I
> will post a link offlist.
>
> Any suggestions welcome.  What should I be doing?
>
> spike
>
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