The brilliant late philosopher David Foster Wallace opened with the following parable at his commencement speech to Kenyon College class of 2005: There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says,“Morning, boys, how’s the water?” And the …
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