So he ended up at William Morris, learning to read upside down the letters on the desks of his betters.
He joined the Navy, where he served in the South Pacific and entertained shipmates by singing, yodeling and playing the guitar, which he had learned to play upside down and left-handed.
Although he was the first black member of the American Institute of Architects, and later its first black fellow, the story most often told about him is that he had to learn to draw upside down in order to avoid making his white clients uneasy by sitting too close to them.
But upside down learning curves feel…like fuckness.
It is time we learnt that turning countries upside down is worse than leaving them with despotic leaders.
I now have a healthy repertoire of aerial flips and stunts, and have also learned how to sing upside down and while walking up walls!
And in a trade where we are encouraged from our first day to be nosy, to learn to read files upside down across desks, to take advantage of misunderstandings about who we might be, we sometimes fail to see how far we are going.
On the upside, I learned a little easter egg that kinda-sorta brings it back — more on that in a post later today.
Still, this whole learning business has real upsides.
The actor told HuffPost that the new season is action-packed, and you'll learn more about the Upside Down.
