During college lectures he’d experienced a boredom that had the intensity of physical pain. He had no ability to listen to a canned talk. He’d figure out where the professor was going with whatever he was saying and, bang, he was out. The more Sam saw of academic life, the more it felt like one long canned talk, created mainly for narrow career purposes. “I sort of started to look at it from a different perspective, and I got a little bit disillusioned,” he said. “There was very little evidence that they were doing much of anything to change the world. Or even thinking about how to have the
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