Acknowledgements

Asking for an endorsement from respected authors in whose field you seek to contribute can be nerve-racking. You seek the most knowledgeable minds, and this raises the bar the value your own book needs to bring. That authors whose work I admire would find time to read my manuscript was fortune enough. For their words of praise that greet my readers on the very first page of this book, I could not be more grateful. Thank you to Mary Karlin, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Reinhart, and Maria Speck.

To William Zinsser, my writing mentor. When discussing the shape this book would take, his advice was trust the process. At first I thought this overly simplistic. Once deep in writing the book, those three words became terrifying. They were literally demanding my blind faith since the book had yet to reveal a singular purpose or direction.