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Part 2 | Follow Your Curiosity This post is a continuation of last week's musings. If you missed the first post, you can find it here. The late, great physicist Richard Feynman, a self-described "curious character," has fascinated me for 25 years or so, since Trudy Cunningham, then associate dean of engineering at Bucknell, https://fycuriosity.com/musings/what-do-you-care-what-anyone-thinks-part-1/ 2018-10-21T20:11:27+00:00 monthly 0.6 https://www.youtube.com/embed/qWabhnt91Uc https://img.youtube.com/vi/qWabhnt91Uc/hqdefault.jpg What Do You Care What Anyone Thinks? | Follow Your Curiosity I belong to a few writers' groups on LinkedIn, and a few weeks ago I looked at the weekly discussion roundup and saw a sentence that made me hang my head. A woman had asked about how to carve out time for writing in her busy schedule. 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