Reflections on corporate year-end banquets, performative status games, and the tragic green light of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.

Highlights:

• The choreographed theatricality of tech company annual galas.
• Chasing phantom status symbols in modern consumer capitalism.
• Gatsby’s yearning: When material wealth cannot fill spiritual voids.
• Finding clarity in authentic, quiet personal craft beyond social validation.

Background music from YouTube Audio Library.