Craig Chimes In! From an email in my inbox this morning: "The iguana was tough, quiet with a penchant for crawling under a table or other dark recess. The kangaroo rat caused the most stress, a small quick thing, but the iguana would be missed ...
2/(He had a name and taking him home for the weekend was an honor Mr. Yam bestowed in the deserving.). I actually think we lost the rat at some point." And then a bit later: "Teaching, managing, whatevering I bring up the story of the animals and cages. It just comes up a lot...
3/ There’s some kind of game theory math puzzle in there but I’m not smart enough to tease it out. If operation linebacker is the game of two men chained together on a cliff, what is the right way to describe this? You are right about the matter of rules ...
4/ When I began private practice, I was shocked to see that our clients, successful people did not give two fucks about the law." In any case, lengthy email most of which only for personal consumption but those are the parts which seemed relevant to our story.
5/ All this from a lifelong friend who I've known since I was six and has had various formative and important influences on my life, despite my gleefully upending him with my picaresque animal liberations. I was fascinated to hear it's been a key touch point for him too.

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