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When people wonder what was behind my meteoric rise to the journalistic pinnacle of weekend newsletter writer, they often assume I must have gone to a prestigious journalism school (nope), studied finance or economics (nope), gained practical experience at a major Wall Street bank or interned for Jordan Belfort (nope, and if only). Rather, it comes down to my fateful decision to major in that noble if much mocked discipline, art history. Which helps explain why I didn’t hit the roof when my daughter broke the news that we were sending her university a quarter million bucks so she could do the same.