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To: skinowski who wrote (17512)	12/29/2025 9:03:57 AM
From: alanrs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17534

Something drives us. It's fun after the basics are covered. Before that it's the way we cover the basics. Idle hands and all that. My beef with Scott generally is his "we're all in this together and I'm leading the band" assumption, along with his sour personality. He's actually quite nasty much of the time. .

To: skinowski who wrote (17512)	12/29/2025 10:08:39 AM
From: Stan	5 Recommendations Recommended By jazzlover2 kckip Roads End skinowski SteveinTX Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17534

We keep learning. Interesting discussion. On a very related note, had just been listening to this video of Richard Feynmann explaining why memorization for learning is putting the cart before the horse. I think that so much of what we know is a mile wide and an inch deep. However, attempting to understand anything means covering less area but going deeper. That takes an investment. Life is too short for anyone to have [based] views on everything I don't think it's even possible to understand something exhaustively. I remember looking at a pencil I was holding and asking myself if it was possible to know everything about it. I mean, no one would ever bother with it, but if so, what you need to list as the categories? Length, width, weight, color, parts, what kind of wood, the kind of lead, where it was made, what tree was used, trace back the parts to their sources. Who cut down the tree of the carbon/clay, and the rest of physical elements. There's an extensive regression of things to research and measure. But what about what it had written or would ever write. Now scale it up to everything else that exists. Forget it! It reminded me of this from Ecclesiastes 8, Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it. We have to prioritize learning, and go deep on what matters. The Hidden Formula to Remember Forever \| Richard Feynman