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Karp was only 20 at that point, but more surprising than his age was that someone who largely skipped the standard socialization process of high school and college would turn out to have such insightful behavioral-design intuition. Karp’s friend Chris Muscarella suggests that because Karp never had that familiar experience, “he has very little notion of what it means to be a conformist” or to measure his thinking against abstract conventional wisdom.