“I can’t do it anymore,” he said. “Don’t get me wrong, I’m fascinated by the industry, and I’m grateful for my experience here, the brilliant people I’ve met, but personally I need a reset. I just feel so optimized.” He emphasized that last word, optimized. Wasn’t that an ideal state for MBAs like Robert? For all of us in Silicon Valley? We strove for optimization. We invented services to clean our apartments, to bring us groceries, to drive us from the office to restaurants so trendy we designed special bots to snag reservations. We dined within the time slots marked in our calendars before being driven home, listening to songs an algorithm discovered for us as we reviewed and reprioritized our to-do lists in the backseat.