The Abyss of Ambition

Essays on wanting, and the ladder that never ends.

We spend the first half of a career climbing as fast as we can, and the second half discovering whether the ladder was ever leaning against the right wall.

Ambition is the engine of every organization — and the thing that quietly consumes the people inside it. This first volume in the Undercurrent series looks hard at the seduction of the next rung: the title, the milestone, the certainty that this one will finally be enough. A book for anyone who has arrived and felt nothing come.

Digital edition · 58 pages · instant download (PDF).