Launch Day

Dear Friends,

Today’s the day. Will The Future Like You? is officially in the world.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve had electrifying conversations about what our online lives are doing to us at levels we don’t fully understand. We’ve discussed the inner fog that rises when we hand our identity over to the algorithm — when we curate from an array of personas, choosing the false self over the true self, again and again, until we forget who we are.

No one needs convincing that symptoms are piling up — chronic self-doubt, a low-grade anxiety, a soul-weariness that people feel but can’t quite name. In my newest book, I explain those aren’t character flaws. They’re signals. The core self is pounding beneath the noise floor, demanding we pay attention.

After years hunched over data sets, falling asleep with scientific articles still open, and talking with more than 100 experts and cultural voices — the patterns kept pointing in the same direction. Our work isn’t to perform another false persona.It’s to hear that pounding beneath the floor boards and to decode the signals our true self is sending. That, I believe, is the spiritual task of the digital age.

Timing matters enormously. The fast-approaching AI boom could meet our already fragmented, destabilized selves — and detonate them.

Another future is possible. That’s what this book is about.

So far, the early responses have moved me. Mason, co-host of FAIK, told me: “I picked up the preview copy and couldn’t stop reading — I’m devouring it.” A former TechCrunch journalist turned podcaster told me: “Finally. This explains what I’ve been feeling.” (And one listener had to shout out the illustrations: “They’re dope!” — which honestly made my day.)

Catch any of these conversations — I’ve grouped the interviews here.

I’m in Florida today, launching from a lovely indie bookstore, No Shelf Control, in St. Augustine. Sending the signal out into the world.

None of this happened alone. Your support has been crucial, and I’m spilling over with gratitude. Thank you for following along. I hope you’ll buy the book.

With love,

Patricia