Conversation

Scene: my school in 1988, I’m 14 Teacher: you’re pretty smart and get good grades, you could do anything with your life, what do you want to do? Me: Mess around idly doing nothing till I’m 35, then binge a TV show, get drunk, write an essay about it, and take it from there
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It would be really hilarious if I’d actually planned this. In 2007 when I started, social media careers were not something you could actually plan the way you can today. You could at best goof around and stumble into them.