Aneesh Raman

I mean, she talks about how she grew up watching Terminator, Terminator 2, Terminator 3.

AI came and she's like, okay, it's now happening, the robot apocalypse.

But she talks about how she pushed through that and she was taking a course where...

They said, use this tool to update your resume.

And it helped her see her skills in a new way.

And then she had to learn something for a certification.

And she was like every one of us, someone who never found learning fit us.

It wasn't built around our way of learning, our curiosity.

So she told the tools, like, help me learn this thing in a way I like to learn with stories, with analogies.

Helped her get that IT certification.

to stories like Jonetta, like Ume, like Taj, like Diego.

I mean, it was really important for us to have that.

And that is the book.

And so our hope ultimately is that not only does it help you at a basic level, but it helps you by being really actionable.

And it helps you by finding someone in this book.

The humans of this book are the book.

Someone in this book that feels like someone that you could listen to and trust and believe that what they're saying is something that could work for you.

Because ultimately we're in a battle of belief right now.

And if the people that win and the stories that win are a disbelief story, like humans are done, the technology keeps beating us at stuff, like hunker down, give up, give in, like that's just gonna be more likely as the outcome, because we know that's how things work.

Like we tell ourselves stories in order to live, as Joan Didion said, as humans.