Recursion

by Blake Crouch

What teachers and professors never told her was about the dark side of finding your purpose. The part where it consumes you. Where it becomes a destroyer of relationships and happiness. And still, she wouldn’t trade it. This is the only person she knows how to be.

And this highlight brings full-circle the dark side of the work-life balance, where the love of work can slide toward obsession. It’s really strange looking at these highlights a year and a half after finishing work on this book. In hindsight, I was very clearly pulling from some darker aspects of my personality to create both Helena and Barry. I’m glad I made it through this period of my life.