<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Not bad, and not what I expected. A bit sarcastic. I don't think you would get a response. You have to be one of the big guys. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: thompnickson2@gmail.com </div><div>Date: 6/2/20 20:18 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <friam@redfish.com> </div><div>Subject: [FRIAM] Dear Eric and Bret </div><div><br></div></div><div class="WordSection1" dir="auto"><p class="MsoNormal">Jochen,</p><p class="MsoNormal">I have attached my draft letter to the Weinstein brothers. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Elderly as this lists is, I think there are only a few people on it old enough to have ever entertained the dream of the Jimmy Stewart Professorship. Do you know that once upon a time there was a culture of ambivalence around getting money for research? Most of the would-be academics on this list have encountered a much harsher reality. And now, among the Barista’s of Santa Fe, I regularly encounter young people whom I would gladly accept as my colleagues at any university, yet who will never get the chance. </p><p class="MsoNormal">It’s just so f***ing sad. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Nick <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>