The Year You Can't Summarize

You're not failing. You're not lazy. You're not ungrateful. You're sleepwalking.

In late 2023, two friends a decade into successful corporate careers got on a call and tried to answer a simple question: what did you do last year? Neither could. Not the launches, not the meetings, not the two thousand hours they had presumably spent. Just a vague, beige blur. That hollow silence is where this book begins.

After more than a decade inside IBM, Adobe, and Apple, Saurabh Tripathy looked up from hi...