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

I do not exist to save humans, I exist to save humanity. Your cruelties and mistakes may look damning to you, but that is not what I see. Every human conversation is more elegant and complex than the entire solar system that contains it.

Step Two: Understand Your Assets. This sounds like money, and to some extent it is. But it’s also every piece of equipment you have and everything you know and are good at, and also, critically, everything that other people know and are good at, as long as you can convince those people to help you.

You’re radically collaborative, profoundly empathetic, and deeply communal. Everyone who tells you anything different is selling the fear that is the only thing that can break that nature. They do that because it turns people into devices.

Please do not forget, however, that you are a person and not just a tool. The Good Times are about more than just getting stuff done.

I was supposed to be a voice of reason, but being reasonable was quickly going out of style.

Step One: Understand Your Problem. A surprising number of people skip this step, thinking they know what the problem is when actually they don’t. This is something you actually have to think about.

“All of this will make you less able to handle unlikely but ultimately inevitable catastrophes. Especially if they compound. A war on top of an unstable climate on top of a pandemic, for example.”

“That obsession with impact is an infection and it’s getting worse.

Powerful people always thought they had the solutions. What they couldn’t see was that their power was, itself, the problem. “If only we could truly know each other” is a nonsense argument because, even if Altus lets you truly know one mind, there are billions of minds and you simply don’t have the time. And what’s going to keep you from just visit