The crimes spreadsheet on some level is the most galling because seriously? As the great philosopher of our time Stringer Bell once said, are you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy? Have at least a little respect.

As Naomi Klein said, "Side with the child over the gun every single time, no matter whose gun and no matter whose child."

I definitely remember people complaining about having to read around that age and it being so incomprehensible to me, especially because we had such leeway in what we read.

As further evidence that the worse my draft grade is the better I do in my fantasy league, my D- roster is currently 4-0.

I would read books faster than the library could get them in over summer vacation, it was the best. Also definitely was the thing that probably prepared me the most for AP English and college classes.

When I very tentatively mentioned to my therapist I thought there was some degree of neurodivergence going on and I told her why her response was something to the effect of “wait and you didn’t already know this?”

The private equity industry isn’t known for its humility, and one of its biggest players Apollo (APO) just dropped this slide in its investor presentation today 🙄

Every time people ask me why I know a lot of absolutely random shit I tell them because I have a good memory and I read a shit ton of books for a long time. It’s really as simple as that. I’d be immeasurably worse off if I didn’t have that encouragement early on.

My parents read me a book every night before bed from as early as I can remember but I also had to read 20 minutes every day starting in fourth or fifth grade (and read every Babysitters’ Club book as a result) and read increasingly complicated novels for classes from middle school on.

I was a voracious reader growing up, took honors and AP English all through school and studied English in college and I fell out of reading so deeply for many years as an adult. I’m horrified to think about what I would have missed if I hadn’t been expected to read entire books.

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