Donald Knuth - Cool Name - Cool Dude

I don't know if it's just my middle-child personality or if there's something wrong with me.

I just dislike blindly participating in trends.

I know I do so all the time but as they come to my attention I make choices about trends.

When I ran across this page from Don Knuth (wikipedia entry) I smiled. Here's a guy who has evaluated a trend in light of his personal purpose and made a clear decision. He knows his identity and has removed email because it distracts him from his purpose.

In these days when parents reserve email addresses and domain names for their children even before they are born I find Don Knuth's example refreshing.

I admire Don Knuth.