Return To Real

What the world is craving isn’t more. What the world is craving is what’s real. The first thing you reach for each morning is your phone. From there, your days are spent in your head, in your inbox, in meetings. You’re successful. And underneath it all is a nagging sense that something isn’t right. With AI rewriting the rules of work in real time, it’s never been easier to get into the game, but it’s never been harder to stand out. So you work faster. Stay visible. But underneath it all, there’s a pull. Your body, your heart, and your spirit telling you to reconnect with something you’ve been starving for. Your market is starving for the same thing. After a $70 million deal to sell his company collapsed overnight, Ryan Levesque moved his family to a two-hundred-year-old hill farm in Vermont, where they learned to raise 80 percent of the food they eat. On that journey, he eventually led his company to a successful exit. What he learned along the way became the three contrarian shifts in this book. This is not a book about unplugging. It’s about the last human advantage left in an age of artificial everything, and how to build your life and business around it—while there’s still time. If you are not analog by design, you will become digital by default.