畅销书作家在NYT的文章：I Was a Best-Selling Novelist. Then I Went Back to School.

作者简介：Tom Rachman, the author of "The Imperfectionists” and other novels, doesn’t know what he’s doing anymore.

For paradoxically, technology keeps discarding what we took as permanent, and hard-earned skills are irrelevant in a blink. Most of us cannot just pivot, whether for lack of opportunity, or lack of funds, or because it feels degrading. Change becomes both mandatory and impossible. Political extremism feeds on that anguish, whispering of dark forces hijacking the present, ravaging what was yours, degrading the future.