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Sean Fenian
Sean Fenian is a generalist and open-source evangelist, recently retired from several decades of working in the information technology sector. He is broadly knowledgeable in many subjects, with a long-standing informed layman’s interest in physics and related science in particular. He has been an avid reader of SF and fantasy since his teens, and first became aware of, and began campaigning on, environmental issues in the late 1970s. He is proficient with weapons both ancient and modern, has trained in four different martial arts, and believes that understanding basic firearms safety is like knowing basic first aid, CPR, or how to use a fire extinguisher. He firmly believes that it is a basic human responsibility to treat all beings fairly and decently, and that the true measure of a person is how you treat others.
His past volunteer activities include educational historical re-enactment, marine mammal rescue, and handicapped riding therapy. He has been formally diagnosed on the autistic spectrum, but stubbornly persists in trying to understand people anyway.
He dreams many things. Occasionally, some of them become reality. But only occasionally.
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Robert Auerbach
The problem I have with encapsulating my history is it winds up sounding like James Bond playing a game of Mad Libs. You say “something red” and my life fills in “a freshly-used dagger” while I look on in horror. You, stop asking those questions! You over there, stop filling them in like that! Why can’t I have a nice apple or cherry or something?
Like Sean, my official background is in the strange side of computer science. I’ve presented original research at Black Hat and DEF CON. Also like him, my unofficial background is, to say the least, colorful. Most people have never needed to know how to convert ice cream into an explosive more powerful than dynamite. Me, I hang around people who do that stuff by accident. Successfully keeping them alive has given me a set of stories even I have trouble believing.
Sean’s already hit the importance of kindness, so I’ll just briefly underline it and move on to being kind to yourself. Don’t judge yourself more strictly than you’d judge your enemies. Don’t punish yourself worse than you’d punish your enemies. You owe yourself duties of fairness and kindness. Embrace them, and let kids see you embracing them. If we’re really lucky, we can teach this to the next generation before the rest of the world teaches them to hate themselves.
Find Robert Auerbach at his own site at RobertAuerbach.us.