It’s a quick hodgepodge of stories for you today because I have a couple different stories to tell the first one the pre-credit story Is this I recently signed a new client a pretty significant client in that they want a lot from me in a lot of time Which means they’re a lucrative client and then I have a lot of work to do for them all of which is good They had signed my paperwork and then they wanted me to get me in their payroll system Which is why some of my clients pay me fine all that boring stuff and they sent me paperwork to fill out and I Questioned one of it because it was like you can’t do anything for anybody who does things in our space and I’m like, of course I’ll do that.

I do a lot of consulting with companies in your space and they said, okay No problem.

We’ll take that out blah blah.

In fact, just don’t even sign the document.

We’ll skip it they sent me a bunch of other email and a bunch of other logistics and like and the only other thing we need you to do is go get a fingerprint and blood work done and with a link to Compatible facilities I Texted my lawyer right away.

It was also a friend of mine and I’m like, this is crazy, right?

And she’s like, yeah, that is definitely crazy.

So I click the link and the link was a rickroll I think I’m gonna like working with this client because that’s funny your Daily Lex I thought about swapping out the theme song for Rick Astley’s never gonna give you up which is the song of a rickroll, but no, I don’t want to tempt the copyright infringement gods And they are gods I have a couple math stories I’m gonna tell as well Math was never my strongest subject in school growing up.

I just Language English writing I can handle all that pretty well and I could do okay in math But like I was a straight-a student and then sometimes in math I would not be a straight-a student and that was really hard for me because my head cannon was I’m a straight-a kind of guy But yeah, the the a in math was crooked and I couldn’t even calculate what angle it was because I barely understood protractors There was a class I had with mrs.

Bansner I think 9th grade maybe 10th grade.

I think was geometry and she had one aspect of the grade that was Spelling and defining math related terms I was like, well at least this part I can be good at and early in the school year like the first or second one of those tests we had to spell and define theorem and I was worried that at the time I was like I’m not sure how to spell that word and I spelled wrong Got the definition right and didn’t find the rest of it And then when we were going over those tests and she got to theorem All the other students were like it’s written on the board which indeed it was the word theory was written on the board So you could have just copied it down, but I lost a point because I didn’t do it And I tried to make the case that hey, at least I didn’t copy it off the board I attempted to spell and got it wrong, but shouldn’t that be worth something and mrs.

Bansner’s point was no, I Can’t see I disagree with her, but I made the argument that was always a kid who made the argument This will shock you one time.

I convinced madam.

Why Rick the French teacher?

you had to get Either all A’s in each quarter to be exempt from your final exam or you could get one B if it was in the first and second quarter and There was one quarter where I couldn’t have to be the third quarter.

I guess where I had like an eighty nine Point four nine as my grade and she’s like that’s gonna be b-plus.

I’m like, that’s not fair Even though I’m not an expert in math that rounds to an egg And then I put four and I ran say nine point five which rounds to 90 I should have an a I would be exempt and she’s like no, but doesn’t work that way I’m like, what can I convince you and she’s like you can try And so I was convincing her.

She’s like you’re not gonna convince me in English.

It’s not I switched to French And I was like, por favor.

That’s kidding.

That’s not French But I I begged her in French and she relented and gave me the a so I was exempt from that final I Also remember in ninth grade I think I had to write an essay and I would always get good grades on my essay But one I got two points off on Was probably a four or five page essay because I had used the verb morphs and mrs.

Brittle said that was slang I was like, that’s not sign It’s real words like no slang and I spent the rest of the school year bringing in cutouts from Newspapers and magazines of those publications using the word morphs in their publications she eventually relented and said yeah, it’s a real word, but I sucked I guess I Was exactly who I mean I was a younger version of me now I always attempted to approach those things with good humor truly like my goal was not to be a jerk but I was also very good at advocating for myself and so my kids want to get 100% or with extra credit like greater than 100% and I’m always like I Don’t mind if you get an 89 unless I don’t mind as long as they’re doing their best work I don’t mind what great they get but like 89.49 is still an A if you can convince the right people.

I’m just saying that is the Lex Friedman life philosophy I feel like I’m oversharing in this episode.

Anyway, happy Monday Lex