Chances are you’re at work right now. Or maybe commuting to work. Or driving the kids to school. Or accomplishing any one of the mundane tasks that we drone through on autopilot each day in order to acceptably function as adults in society. Your job is likely boring. Your duties perfunctory. One of your responsibilities is monitoring the lever. If the lever is too low, you must push it up. It keeps the business functioning correctly. Don’t you despise the lever? Don’t you feel like this place, this job in this building, is not a happily humming unit of the capitalist utopia, but a prison? Well look again. The lever is not, in fact, a lever, but a pen. You push it up, down, around. You form words. Sentences. You write actions and dialogue. That is your role. You are a writer for the television program The Twilight Zone. This is your story. H/T Stefanie Flamm. Listen to Episode 109