Well, it looks like I'm done with the corporate world.

[NNadir]

41. I didn't dream of him going to Karlsruhe for the night life. At one time, it was a great center for nuclear...

...science, particularly nuclear materials science. I'd guess it's been destroyed, more or less, as a nuclear materials facility. (I cut my own fuel teeth, musing over phase diagrams out of there, decades ago.)

His generation will need to deal with a vast screwup, far more than is being recognized. The scale of the environmental tragedy they will face is gargantuan. I hope I have raised him to understand it to be his responsibility to use whatever tools and capabilities to which he has access, to join the fight.

I have tried to emphasize to him that when I die, if he wants to remember anything of me, it will be to inspired to use the fine mind he developed - I will say with not too much conceit I helped to develop it - for good, not money. Money is OK on the side, but it is not a something for which one should live, nor its acquisition defining even a serious goal.