Learning from the Movies

Monday, January 03, 2005, at 03:24PM

By Eric Richardson

I went to see The Aviator with Kathy and her parents tonight. The moral of the story? All geniuses are crazy. Therefore: It's ok to be a little crazy if you think there's a decent chance you're a genius.

I think that's a good thing to keep in mind.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

Previously on this date...

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