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Inventing a public persona for fun and profit is a tradition in America (I can't speak for other countries.) I read a really good book on the topic many years a

Inventing a public persona for fun and profit is a tradition in America (I can't speak for other countries.) I read a really good book on the topic many years ago: "Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens." I should read it again, because it was very interesting. Ben Franklin was another one from humble beginnings that turned himself into a world renown Parisian diplomat and inventor, among many other things. Edit: my favorite story of self-reinvention is the story of Korla Pandit. I love it because it's something I would have done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korla_Pandit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korla_Pandit

jamiek88 4y ago
Do you know if there is an ebook of this anywhere? It’s out of print and used books from people I don’t know gross me out. It’s weird I know. Like a phobia almost.
- michaelwww 4y ago
  No sorry. How about some kind of sterilization procedure?
  - danrochman 4y ago
    Whoa now! Just because they’ve got a bizarre phobia doesn’t mean that we’ve got to jump straight to sterilization. (Do we even know if the phobia is heritable?)
    - retcore 4y ago
      Whoa, here's a Smithsonian conservator dude saying, "My goal of late has been to develop procedures for mold contaminated collections that keep staff safe" https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/conserving-archival-collections-suffering-fungal-attack https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/conserving-archival-collectio... Definite interest in the reader's health, as well as archival, going on here.
      - jamiek88 4y ago
        Thank you! So I’m not completely crazy!
- pcthrowaway 4y ago
  Perhaps you can pay someone who has a copy to digitize it for you. It might not be fully legal, but it looks like there's no way for you to buy the book from a source that would support the author/publisher anyway
pxmpxm 4y ago
Back when all the youfs were swallowing neodymium bearing balls for lulz, I ended up going down the "bucky balls" and related rabbit hole on wikipedia. The article on Buckminster Fuller just screams PR astroturf - having read several times in sequence, I still had no idea who tf he was or what is he notable for. New age techno woowoo with tessellated spheres is my lasting impression.

jamiek88 4y ago

Do you know if there is an ebook of this anywhere? It’s out of print and used books from people I don’t know gross me out. It’s weird I know. Like a phobia almost.

michaelwww 4y ago
No sorry. How about some kind of sterilization procedure?
- danrochman 4y ago
  Whoa now! Just because they’ve got a bizarre phobia doesn’t mean that we’ve got to jump straight to sterilization. (Do we even know if the phobia is heritable?)
  - retcore 4y ago
    Whoa, here's a Smithsonian conservator dude saying, "My goal of late has been to develop procedures for mold contaminated collections that keep staff safe" https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/conserving-archival-collections-suffering-fungal-attack https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/conserving-archival-collectio... Definite interest in the reader's health, as well as archival, going on here.
    - jamiek88 4y ago
      Thank you! So I’m not completely crazy!
pcthrowaway 4y ago
Perhaps you can pay someone who has a copy to digitize it for you. It might not be fully legal, but it looks like there's no way for you to buy the book from a source that would support the author/publisher anyway

pxmpxm 4y ago

Back when all the youfs were swallowing neodymium bearing balls for lulz, I ended up going down the "bucky balls" and related rabbit hole on wikipedia. The article on Buckminster Fuller just screams PR astroturf - having read several times in sequence, I still had no idea who tf he was or what is he notable for. New age techno woowoo with tessellated spheres is my lasting impression.