A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel (The Carls Book 2)

"Our reality isn’t about what’s real, it’s about what we pay attention to.”

“I can smell that kind of ambition. It’s not about making the world better, it’s about using marvelous potential and intelligence to . . .” She paused to think. “To feel like they matter. I won’t work with people like that, because if they don’t think they matter despite being some of the most successful, important, influential people on earth, wha

When it comes down to it, when has humanity ever known what it was doing?

Impacting the World This one is simple, but so dangerous. If the world is different because you are in it, then you must matter. You must be important if things changed because you exist. But if that’s what you believe, then the bigger the impact, the more you matter, and that can lead to some bad places.

You might think that I missed a big one, like “Belonging.” But I think belonging is just mutual appreciation of shared identity. It’s like a feedback loop of appreciating someone for an identity you share, which makes you appreciate yourself.

I think part of the point of loving someone is being able to deal with their brokenness.

The most impactful thing you can do with power is almost always to give it away.

Even in a world without Altus, the most sophisticated software in existence is tasked with figuring out how to keep you from leaving a website. That software knows all of your weaknesses, and while it’s only concentrating on individuals, exploiting individual weakness is also exploiting societal weakness. What that software wants to do is make us i

I just want you to know that you people are wonderful and beautiful and terrible and foolish.