John Lozano spent his life learning how to get by without reading.
He developed a series of workarounds in his career as a master carpenter and NASA foreman. Most often, Lozano would snap photos of printed pages and convert the images to sound which he listened to in his earbuds.
Still, he couldn’t do that when filling out job applications in-person, so Lozano figured out that if he skipped questions he couldn’t read, interviewers would ask them again in conversation. He would confidently respond, noting that he had simply forgotten to answer…