My Dad Left Me on the Highway at Graduation and Three Days Later He Was in My Office Asking for $5 Million

directly competitive work for eighteen months, and I used that time to do what I had not been able to do for seven years, which was to think slowly, to read books that had no professional application, to take long walks in cities I had never had time to visit, to eat dinners that lasted more than twenty minutes.

I thought about my grandmother occasionally continue reading …