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Reddit employees are not able to negotiate their salaries because it is a well known fact that women are less likely to negotiate, and therefore will end up being paid less.

(It is a completely idiotic and unfair policy they would not fly for one second at another company that actually needs competent engineers/businesspeople)

Hi Matt,

Your newsletters helped me pretend like I knew what I was talking about through an internship in finance and so I thank you for that.

I have a couple questions:

1) do you suggest a top-down or bottom approach to reading some of the great classics? Like would you recommend learning latin/greek first and then tackling the works, or reading translations?

2) how have social relations changed with your yale law/wlrk/goldman buddies since you became a newsletter writer? Like I imagine they’re more financially successful but you’re more famous - who gets better reservations? Do you wish you could buy things that you can’t? Do they wish they had the influence you do?

I was home schooled, and until grade 8 when I went to a public high school I hadn't seen a math English or science textbook. Now I'm a senior, and I have straight As throughout high school and a 33 on the ACT. I don't consider my success in high school to be because I'm exceptionally smart, but rather because I had developed strong rational thinking skills in my time as a home schooler. Everything you learn in high school does not require any prior understanding or prerequisite courses. It's how you use the things you learn and develop good study habits that determines your ability to succeed.