[FRIAM] Unrecognized Thinkers

[Marcus Daniels]

What remains from a life?   Perhaps a pile of money, but also the impact of those people on our thinking.  So my question what is that impact, indeed in principle, other than to name the person?   There was something special about how he approached (RF?) engineering?   How is this person different from say my grandmother who also taught me various technical and non-technical things? Presumably to move it from the local to the global, or from the subjective to objective, some unpacking is needed?

The original question also added this nuance of recognition?    It seems conceivable that one could have a huge impact on the thinking of many but get no significant credit.    Why does credit even matter?

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Jon Zingale
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2021 1:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Unrecognized Thinkers

"Why pursue an old way of doing things, if the new way of doing things (solid state) can do it more accurately, with more control, and at less expense?"

These discussions, to my observation, mostly turn into *in principle* discussions. We could flood the list with the benefits of one technology or the other, and boy, have I heard many many discussions of this type. I often leave the discussion realizing that they aren't at all comparable.

So again, and not that it matters because the thread starter introduced a bend, I was writing about a thinker that will go unrecognized much as he has until this point. Another was a mentor I had in Pittsburgh named Tom Bodziak. He was amazing. He died from brain tumors when I was 19, but when I was 16-18 he mentored me tremendously. He was the first person to help me decode the bands on a resistor and coached me through a full year of robotics competitions at CMU (F.I.R.S.T).
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