No one wants to stay in light mode forever. Sooner or later, everyone gravitates toward heavy mode—toward making something with weight . Your life’s work will be heavy . Finding the balance between light and heavy is the game.

It’s not that people can’t make heavy things. It’s that they don’t notice they aren’t. Lightness has its virtues—it pulls us in, subtly, innocently, whispering, ' Just do things .' The machine rewards movement, so we keep going, collecting badges. One day, we look up and realize we’ve been running in place.

And then you feel it: a quiet, gnawing hol... See more