She was six.

She does not remember the speech.

What she has, and what she says to this day in a tone of enormous scorn, is: “Daddy says he’s turning his phone off.”

Which is the most accurate thing anybody has ever said about me.

Part Thirty-Six: What the Building Knew

I run a company with four hundred and thirty people in it and I had to tell them something, and I got it wrong twice before I got it right.

The first attempt was a memorandum.