Sublime

Ben asked Sam what his ideal role was in the company. “He says that it was being the nerve center—the spider in the center of the web,” recalled Ben. “That people would come to him with ideas and he would decide if they were good or not.” Sam saw his job as listening to what others had to say, and yet the members of the management team, along with

A biographer of the novelist E. M. Forster wrote, “To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.” Imagine how good it would be to be that guy.

He is painfully aware of his celebrity. The nature of it and the responsibility that it imposes are constantly on his mind. He remembers people’s names, and greets them by name when he sees them again. He seems to want to prove that he finds other people interesting. “The main thing I have to prevent myself from becoming is disillusioned with trans

The Paper Millionaire, by some Arab-turned-Englishman named Roger Shashoua. He sat