very disappointed – asked my friend to come to Chile with me to see the eclipse (and I’d share the second observatory ticket that I got with him), and he said he’d go, but only “for a couple of days”, because to go for longer would be irresponsible towards obligations here. He was surprised that I would contemplate anything longer than that myself.

Of course, when his work (hedge fund that he hates) tells him to go to Asia for a quite a bit longer, he has no objections.

What happened to our priorities?