The Sunrise

Han said, at the press conference for his Princess of Asturias Award: "I hope the system collapses."

Here is my response, arrived at through nineteen chapters of thinking, building, confessing, and climbing:

The system does not need to collapse. It needs to grow up and to become worthy of the tools it possesses.

Worthy. Not a word I use lightly. It carries moral weight, and the weight is intentional. The tools we have built are more powerful than any tools in human history. Power without worthiness can be catastrophic. And worthiness, in this context, means honing ourselves so that we are worthy of being amplified.

The first step is building the capacity to consistently ask good questions. I have made this argument through the lens of philosophy in the chapter on consciousness, through the lens of economics in the chapter on democratization, through the