2025-09-10
28 分钟This is Planet Money from NPR.
Last summer, Charlie Baker was very bored.
He was a rising college senior, had an internship at the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs.
Entering data into spreadsheets, that was what he did on an exciting day.
One day, he's in the break room.
I'm picturing beige, everything beige.
Yeah, or gray.
It's like, and it also, it has this sort of smell of like a thrift store.
If that makes sense.
Yep, I do need that smell.
I don't love it for you, but I know it.
And in that pungent break room, he sees on the table something that,
in other circumstances, would not be exciting.
Someone had left out an LSAT studying book, and I was like, oh, maybe I should check this out.
He starts working through this book,
doing practice questions for the law school admissions exam for fun.
And it is like the perfect law school meet-cute.
The LSAT book and Charlie run into each other in the break room and the rest is history.
It's all weird little like puzzles.
The most convoluted riddles like anyone has ever ridden.