Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Signs of Recovery


 Stephen Landry, in the middle, with former colleagues.

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When Failures Become Triumphs

 The nonfiction writer and filmmaker Sebastian Junger was twenty-nine and working as an arborist, harnessed in the upper canopy of a pine tree, when he tore open his leg with a chainsaw and got the idea to write about dangerous jobs. He was still limping two months later when a fishing vessel out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he lived, was lost at sea. Commercial fishing provided his topic; the result was The Perfect Storm.

- From Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

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