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Re: Dean Kamen Won't Be Satisfied Until He Reinvents Us All- Popsci Article

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Originally Posted by Molten View Post
A great article. Really show how dedicated Kamen is.

Lately though, it seems that whenever I see him on video, he is rather exhausted. It seems that he has been working on the reserves for too long. It would probably be a good thing if he actually found time for a good vacation some time.

I don't know him personally, so I could be way off on that. It just seems that he is getting more and more serious and perhaps a bit depressed.
Read Codename: Ginger. It's about the development of the Segway, and a very engaging read. You also see a different side of Dean. I'm pretty sure he never stops working, and it seems from the book he expects others to do the same.

[EDIT] I just finished the article, and WOW! that was good. It shows very much the same Dean that Codename: Ginger did. Whatever Dean does, it obviously works. However, I see he's got a Tesla Roadster in his garage. I wonder how long it'll take for him to convince Elon Musk to start showing up at FIRST events. (don't know about Elon Musk? He's pretty much Dean's "intellectual heir." He was CEO of Paypal sold that, and was a very rich man. Instead of doing nothing, he started SpaceX (on their way to supplying cargo to the ISS), has invested a huge amount of money into Tesla Motors (building electric cars), and Solar City (the largest distributor of solar panels in California). He's the sitting CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors. I don't think he sleeps.)
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