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Originally Posted by chrisj32r
I look up to Dean. He's got the life everyone wants. He serves as an inspiration for us young tech geeks  |
And that is exactly the point. It is good that you admire Dean. It is appropriate that we each have someone we can look up to, whoever that may be. Dean is an inspirational figure (and not just to young tech geeks
) and a lot of us look up to him. But he is in that position because of what he does, not because of what he wears.
We all have a finite amount of time available. Given a choice between a reasonable discussion about the accomplishments and plans of a person like Dean (or Woodie, or John Abele, or Jim Utaski, or just about any of the WFA or UFH winners that populate the leadership of the FIRST community) vs. a thread about Dean's choice in wrist watches (or socks or footwear or...), I think that the former is a more fruitful way to expend that limited time.
I guess what I am trying to say is that if he is such an admirable person, then we can best respect that by trying to emulate his actions, not his wardrobe.
-dave