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I went to San Francisco then because I wished to live deliberately.

Too sincere. Too poor. Lasted only a few years.

But left with enough experience to land a string of higher-paying "comms" jobs at tech companies. So one could write in one's free time, one told oneself.

I showed Belan an early draft of the deck, maybe 90 slides, and he said "it's trying to get at something unimportant, but it's not there. I don't like all these little bits of unconnected trivia."

So I added 454 more slides.

More titles:

• Lexemic Lush Landscape
• Marks on a Street in Rome
• The Berlin of the Mind
• Our Own Yellow Brick Road
• Why_You_Should_Hate_AI_FINAL_v2

The deck is such a mixture of content and styles that I fear no one title will be able to capture it.

My plan for the deck is to use …

Leo Steven was adopted, in Powersville, Missouri, when he was 21.

1. Willard Howard Taft was President.

Why would anyone adopt a 21 year old? Is that even possible? Man adopts man.

Belan is the Chairman and CEO. When I first met him, after I’d been hired and flown to San Francisco, I was shocked when I saw his name.

My great-grandfather had been named Belan when he was born, but had been adopted later at the age of 21 and he changed his name.

We call him Leo Steven. B…