Theo Baker

Or are you one of those pure and sort of fetishized builders?

who are doing it just for the sake of it.

The NGMI's, on the other hand, are the not going to make it.

Those who don't have the hustle.

Oh, completely.

And, you know, this is another one, right?

Technical, right?

Technical or non-technical.

That is a judgment on your value as a person.

Are you technical or are you non-technical?

Your entire worth can be summarized very, very succinctly.

And one of the reasons I did the glossary of terms, one, I just find it fun.

It's sort of like cultural anthropology embedded here in this fun ecosystem.

But the whole book is about self-presentation.

That if you learn how to say the right words and you learn how to exist in this closed off ecosystem, the rewards are fabulous.

And so I wanted to sort of expose people to some of the lingo and see that they've created this very sort of closed off world in which everyone says the same things to each other back and forth.

Yeah.

This book takes place over the course of freshman year.

And freshman year in college, I think is a formative time for anyone, right?

One thing I really wanted to embrace with this book is the coexistence of very normal, banal things with utterly absurd context.