The idea behind the Symphonic Circle™ began while I was a graduate student at Harvard. It was during my time in Cambridge that I came to really understand how isolating the Academy can be, especially for those who crave collaborative discourse.
I was constantly amazed at not only just how deep the intellectual cleavages were, but also just how acceptable it was to remain buried behind a desk in a remote piece of real estate on the Harvard campus—never to ask the person next to you what he or she was working on and how it might relate to your own views on the world.
It was not until I left Cambridge, with degree in hand, and began working in the “real world” that I quickly realized that parochial solutions seem to exist everywhere.
