Why Bother?
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6 min readFeb 20, 2021
On March 6, my birthday last year, I was up in Vermont with my family. At the time my son was working for a big biotech firm. About five days earlier, that firm had had a meeting of all of their big players in big hotel meeting room in Boston. It seemed that some of them got sick. But they didn’t want anyone to panic, so they kept it quiet for a few days.
Meanwhile, all of my family gathered for my birthday. We had a short discussion about…
