At 12 I poured my daily thoughts onto the internet — what people would now call blogging — and made many friends. By 14, I told my head of school: “My friends are on this preprint server, arXiv. They do not know I am 14. They write to me as if I were a fellow researcher, on swift trust, and my name now appears on preprints. I am already a researcher. I can spend 16 hours a day doing research, or waste eight hours a day in your school. You tell me to study so that I can become a researcher, but I already am one.”