Afterword

The inspiration for this book came from a heartbreaking piece of news in February 2022. A twenty-eight-year-old internet worker, after years of relentlessly intense work, died suddenly. He left behind a pregnant wife.

I read that story many times over. Each time, I felt more strongly that this person's life deserved to be more than a trending search result. And so this book came to be.

Everything in it is fiction — but the suffocation it describes is real.

This book is dedicated to everyone spending their life in a cubicle.