Doctor Thornburg, I presume

I got a wonderful email the other day from Dr. David Thornburg, who is the director of the Thornburg Center for Space Exploration.

What was so wonderful about it is that when I read his name and biography, I realized that two decades ago when I was teaching in California, David gave a talk that I attended, and his talk was part of my formative thinking about graduate school and my career beyond.

And now, 20 years later, not even realizing that he had been one of my inspirations, here was an email from him, talking about the similarities in the work we were doing.

Needless to say, a great phone conversation ensued.

One of David’s recent pieces talks about some of the connections between his work and epistemic games, and I look forward to continuing the conversation….