Like many of you, I was raised in the background radiation of Calivinist thought. I expected little but redemptive hard labor, before presumably one day dying in a mine. I also read Hackers & Painters at an impressionable age and was kind of a jerk about it for a while. This talk is about how despite this, I got better. The real urtext of my tradition was two people standing on stage explaining how although they have different jobs, they are friends, and try to help each other. It was mindblowin...