Did You Meet Will Maskell?

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Sotat was the transition from physics at m i t to finance of some sort. He met will mc Askell, bentodd and a few others from sor the natioal e a movement who were visiting cambridge. And talked them about what I was going to do tho my life. They also said a bunch of things i hadn't thought about before around what causes i could ultimately give to. It's an amazing game to find out that even existsbut much less to get involved in.

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