Less than one year after starting this Substack, I was contacted by the Brockman Agency. They represent some esteemed people, such as Leonard Susskind, Max Tegmark, and Sean Carroll. They enjoyed my podcasts on physics / philosophy / AI, especially the ones where I gave my own thoughts on the matter, such as how I think many people misinterpret Gödel’s incompleteness theorem (I’ll leave a link in the comment section to that).

They wanted to know if I was interested in writing a book, and I pitched them an idea I’ve had for a couple of years. Without spoiling anything, it’s about various theories of reality and how to see the proverbial forest from the trees. More accurately, rather than zooming upward to see the forest, you zoom inward to see the various roots, their intersections, their disconnections, their limits, and their extensions. It’s an ambitious book and I didn’t think anyone would go for it, let alone even get it!

Well, fast forward a few months to last week, and I’m so excited (and terrified) to say that Penguin Press has signed a deal to publish this book. You should expect it in two years or so. I couldn’t have done it without the Brockman Agency, without Penguin, without the channel’s guests, and importantly, without you.

Thank you dearly. I hope to deliver something impressive and unlike anything you’ve read before.

- Curt