I was having dinner the other night with a former professor, who is still a mentor of mine, and we were talking about how both of us still have friends from elementary school that we see on a regular basis. I asked him why he thought these early friendships had endured for so long, and […]
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In a commencement speech given by the wonderful author David Foster Wallace, he begins by telling a story about two young fish who are swimming along, when an older fish passes them and says, “Morning, how’s the water?” As they swim by, one of the younger fish turns to the other and says, “What the […]
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