A small Cosmere story about one ship and a captain who keeps leaving behind what he already understands. I read this during a period when the way software gets built is being reshaped by AI. A lot of what I learned to value as a craft is being repriced in real time.
A character in the book describes change as something you ride, the way a surfer rides a wave. Something inevitable is not something to brace against. It is something to find your balance inside of. Read through that lens, the lesson is less that the old way was wrong, and more that holding onto a stance the world no longer supports is its own kind of stillness.