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Now let's get into today's newsletter for Wednesday, March 25th, 2026.

All right, today's deep dive got personal for me.

And I mean that. My grandmother got on a boat to America alone at 16

because she was the smartest person in her village.

That's not bragging. That's what

actually happened. Her small town in Ukraine gave anyone under 21 an intelligence test. The prize,

a one-way ticket to America, and temporary housing with a former villager already in New York City.

The highest score wins and she won. And everything that followed, including my

father, me, this newsletter, exists because a teenage girl sat down and outscored everyone around

her. My grandfather's story is different. When he arrived at Ellis Island, the immigration officer

had room for exactly seven letters on the form. The name he'd carried from Ukraine

was gone in a single moment, replaced by a stranger with a pen who had no idea he was rewriting

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