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3 May 2023 Conversations with Tyler Kevin Kelly on Advice, Travel, and Tech
“Had there been at that time a gap year or internships, I would have done that, and that’s what I needed, and I would have gone back, I suspect.”
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- Kevin Kelly
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- 3 May 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Way back when, why is it you dropped out of University of Rhode Island? Yes. This was in 1971. Had there been at that time a gap year or internships, I would have done that, and that’s what I needed, and I would have gone back, I suspect. But there wasn’t such a thing, and it felt like grade 13. I was sitting in the same desks with the same routine, and what I needed was to do a project. I needed to just get out of my seat and do stuff, and there wasn’t any option at that time to do that, so I dropped out. In retrospect, I regret having even spent that one year there. What was the job you took after dropping out?…
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