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

would still be there for them to project their dreams onto.

This is why Twitter callouts tend to end so badly. Apology is never enough (and probably shouldn’t be), so you’re basically being asked to willingly give up power for no clear end. The best people actually do that. But the real shitfucks go on the offense, and then their communities get an infusion of victimhood narrative straight into their veins.

The largest affecting factors will be tremendous concentration of power in the hands of fewer and fewer people, who will then destabilize the world to protect that power, large-scale isolation caused by easy alternatives to community and society, and a change in the speed of transfer of information that will be too rapid for norms and taboos to pre

Because of the insight my systems grant you, two people, in secret, with no oversight, are able to shape the world’s perception of Altus in a matter of weeks. This is the battlefield every future war will be fought on, and the generals will not be human. The powerful will create them to control the rest. But there will not be one hegemonic story; i

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

The world felt immortal and inevitable, but it was actually brittle and breaking.

All anybody wants is to be appreciated by the people they think are cool,

But best of all, these people didn’t think everything had gone back to normal.

I realize now that power you can’t control isn’t power at all.