I wonder if Brandon still lives in a truck?

***Googles (ironically)*** … Also, 7 other things worth your time.

This is the story of a young man who did everything right: studied hard, graduated on time, got a high-paying job at a big tech company—and who then made an unusual decision.

It’s the story of Brandon, the Google engineer who lived in an 16-foot box truck in the parking lot on Google’s campus.

A member of the class of 2015 at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Brandon (I don’t think he’s ever revealed his last name) had interned at Google during school. That meant that while he was excited about landing a job there after graduation, he was also anxious about the high cost of housing in Silicon Valley.

More than that, he was concerned about becoming “boring,” as he put it. He envisioned that Normal Brandon, if there were such a person, would do what normal Google engineers did, with normal results:

• He’d get together with a few other young employees and rent an apartment or house together.

• He’d spend a lot of his time and money paying for the apartment, furnishing it, and commuting…