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Andy Lynch wrote:
> Todd,
> If I may be so bold, I would like to recommend an additional question that
> may be relevant to your poll.
>
> * If you are an adult and you belong to a club/group with younger ( e.g.
> 16-17 ) members, do you feel that their presence in the club/group has had a
> positive or a negative effect, and why?
>
> I can say that several years ago I made several acquaintances via an
> impartial medium, similar to e-mail and newsgroups, and this forced me to
> make judgments on the character and maturity levels of the people that I met
> without regard to gender, race, or age. After meeting these people in
> person, I found that some of them were people that I would not have normally
> associated with due to differences in our ages. In most cases, I can
> honestly say that my life was enriched because of my association with these
> people. The difference in perspective can really be amazing, and it managed
> to open up my eyes and see new people that I met in a different light.
>
> -Andy Lynch
Excellent point, Andy ... I had been a fan of Bram Lembrecht's work for a long
time prior to MIT Mindfest '99, and I always thought he was in his thirties.
Imagine my shock when I met him, and learned he was on track to graduate high
school in the spring (apologies to Bram if I am unmasking his secret online
persona ...;).
There's a whole lot of information in this thread that I just came back to
today, and I'm not going to post any thoughts or opinions until I've had more
time to distill it all.
-s
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