A reader writes from San Francisco:

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Ur best lines:

"We have all become career improvisers [...] At someone else's mercy, we can fit in momentarily, but from their careful, cost-cutting calculation or sudden, inexplicable whim, we become misfits again, for that is what we are. Try as we might, we cannot adjust ourselves dexterously enough to our rapidly shifting surroundings, which we have no role in shaping."

It's very cathartic reading these lines. For I am a displaced tech worker who have been struggling to find my place again. It's been 3 years now and I have not been able to bounce back.

Luckily for me, I still have old fashioned Viet relatives who give me shelter and support me while I try to regain my footing.

Make me think of the law of UNCERTAINTY that new age gurus keep selling as a launching point toward a better life. The idea that uncertain is a natural law and one should embrace it.

It is a natural law that one can embrace if one had a brain and IQ of 300. It could work to a smart person's advantage. For a dummy like me and many others, it means I'm one bad decision away from unemployment and going broke.

I read ur book when I'm in the sauna, helps keep my mind off the heat and opens my eyes to all the neighborhoods around me. And if I look hard enough, I see the poverty too.





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