In the summer of 2019 I traveled to the Peruvian Amazon and tried something called Ayahuasca. It led me to face some deeper questions about myself and the world around me that I’d like to share more broadly. I’ve wanted to share these ideas for a while, and now seems like a good time: I’ve quit my job at Waymo and I’ve started to work full-time on an idea, , that was inspired by these experiences. This is an excerpt from a larger book that I’ll be publishing (a travel journal from my time in Peru, and how I’m trying to make sense of the world afterwards).