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I really feel for James too. I might reach out to him as well and offer to help him debug the Mac issues with Pantomine.

This would be a clever signature if I could think of one.

I think your doing that could have a positive effect far beyond helping him with coding advice. Seeing an act of kindness after you’ve just seen cruelty can mean a lot to someone.

I’ll share a story of my reaching out to someone during a tough time. I am a huge fan of Billy Joel’s music. When he started firing his old band members, basically to replace them with new musicians he could pay less, I saw that Liberty DeVito was devastated in an interview that I read. I forgot how I got his email (I have a friend who died earlier this year who was a HS band director and university jazz professor who was friends with Billy Joel’s percussionist, so it might have been through him) , but I shot him an email letting him know how meaningful the music he was a part of has been in my life and how I thought his drumming was like Ringo’s or Bonham’s — he was just the perfect fit for each song and you could not imagine any other drummer playing it. It was pure magic and he was a drummer who gave everything for the song. He wasn’t a show off. He was there to do whatever the song needed. And I shared what my mother told me when I was a young working musician. She told me that when you talk to a musician that has really moved your soul, to tell them that. Don’t hold back. Because it may mean the world to them to hear that.

Liberty told me that my mom’s advice was spot on and thanked me in a very heartfelt response. He seemed like a really kind and genuine person.

A couple of years later, Liberty sent me a LinkedIn connection request and, of course, I accepted. But I really don’t know him. Although I jokingly call Liberty my best friend to my wife and kids sometimes when we hear a Billy Joel song.

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