Acknowledgments

Since I’m a talker, I need two types of people to write a book. To generate ideas, I need people around me who are smart, witty, and nonlinear. For me, that’s the easy one. When it’s getting down to brass tacks, I need people who can translate nonlinear into chapter, verse, and action. Thank goodness for this group. Otherwise, I’d be where I was in 2019—a person prone to random and tangential ideas with little hope of something more than a battle cry—Burn Ladders!—much less a book.

Thank you, Jenny Knuth, for listening and shaping Ladderburning into something meaningful. You make clever and profound look easy. You made this book happen. Thanks to Kelly Norton, once the student, now the teacher. She knows what obsession sounds ...

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