The gulf between what the average person knows and what they would need to know in today's world to live an autonomous self-directed life with full agency, free from covert coercion by large corporate entities, is truly staggering. Every now and then I contemplate writing a book or a series of blog posts with all the things that I wish someone would tell me if I were a young person today, but then I read articles like this which remind me of the magnitude of the task and it takes all the self-control I can muster just to avoid curling up in a fetal position and sinking into the pit of despair, let alone actually start writing.