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also, the age-based social structure @backus illuminates provides a nice "real" reason for the resurfacing, which feels much better than, say, a script that sends you a classic to re-read every Tuesday.
This is one thing I miss about academia: a much flatter age distribution. Nothing like discussing a 40 year old-essay with a friend of the author's (who read it 40 years ago), a student of the author (who read it 30 years ago), an experienced colleague (20 years), etc etc.
Having 5 people with deep but utterly different backgrounds in a room is something academia (sometimes) does very, very well.
This sounds like such a beautifully rich, striated conversational experience! Do you intentionally attempt to recreate this kind of environment outside of academia? If so, I’d be curious to hear how.
That's not a tweet, but rather an essay that would take 3 months fulltime work to write well. Briefly: befriend people who (a) you admire; (b) of many different ages and deep backgrounds; and (c) bring them together. It's a lot of work.
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