For decades, an underground hideaway at UC Berkeley’s Moffitt Library — better known as “The Cave” — gave rise to a generation of blind leaders, including Joshua Miele, a MacArthur genius grant winner who now builds adaptive technologies at Amazon.
The Cave was where iron sharpened iron, academically — tricks for surviving Berkeley were as much a currency as smart readers and cheap weed — but also personally. A rotating cast of characters, readers as well as students, created its unique synergy and chaos.
