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They Thought He'd Get Fired (Young, Brilliant, and Wrong: Part 3)

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Coming Up Together with Ash

Although it was a small company of about thirty traders and a hundred developers, Ash and I might’ve never become friends if it weren’t for my friend and coworker D, who I was not afraid of at all because he was a fellow non-white MIT nerd. D and I were usually the only two in the office in the evening. We had nowhere else to go so we often worked past 9pm. After my eyes started stinging and watering from staring at eight screens for 14+ hours, we’d take a break from working to talk about work. “You know that Ash is probably one of the smartest two people at this company?” I eyed D in…

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