You Have Arrived at Your Destination (Forward Collection, #4)

by Amor Towles

there was no better predictor of an earnings disappointment than a brand-new corporate headquarters.

A twenty-first-century fertility lab, Vitek had combined the decoding of the human genome and recent advances in behavioral science not simply to help couples become pregnant but to give them some influence over the intelligence and temperament of their child.

we’re going to push a few into the forefront and a few into the background. We like to think of it as genetic nudging.”

“The credit score was invented in the late 1980s by a mathematician and an engineer who realized that by analyzing historical patterns of consumer debt repayment, they could design algorithms that could predict an individual’s reliability as a mortgagee.

A second-act setback—in which, having started confidently along a particular trajectory, we come face-to-face with our own limitations.”

But our strengths don’t serve us well in every circumstance at every phase of our lives. As we grow and enter new contexts, our longer-term strengths can suddenly hamper our worldly progress, which in turn can create dissonance at home.