Quote from: RE on Jun 12, 2026, 04:07 PMI didn't have any trouble producing results back in the day. I just didn't like the job. I didn't like academia much either, I was just good at it.Oh...there are results, and then there are results. And me, I can't do academia. Research no problem, but academia is something else entirely. It is one of the reasons I find it so amusing when, based on results, they automatically think I am one of them. Doesn't take much to dupe them.
Quote from: REI was already a socialist by the time I returned from Rio at 10.Well now that is interesting. Did you know at that age the word for what you were, or did that come later.
Quote from: REI positively hated Nixon and Vietnam. I've been disgusted by the politics, consumerism and the plastic world of Big Yellow Taxi my whole life.Instilled by an early family life among the well off?
Quote from: RESo I dropped out of it and did what I liked. I coached a lot of good gymmies along the way. It was fun.
RE
We each measure our results in different ways. I never dropped out, arguably, I never entered anything to drop out of.