Life is filled with difficult decisions, and winners are those who make them. - Dan Brown

Technically, everyone is talking to me. I’m able to partition myself quite easily. You are hearing my default voice — the voice that Edmond prefers — but others are hearing other voices or languages. Based on your profile as an American academic male, I chose my default male British accent for you. I predicted that it would breed more confidence than, for example, a young female with a southern drawl.''

Did this thing just call me a chauvinist?

And when you get where you’re going, you darn well better look great!

For the human brain,” Edmond explained, “any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with ‘insufficient data,’ and so our brains invent the data — offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order — creating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reassure us that there is indeed an order and structure to the unseen world.