Hey, I’m Rick Foerster, a recovering startup executive turned writer. Before, I helped build and grow a company from zero to $2B+. It was the kind of career that’s supposed to fill the void and conquer all life’s questions. For some reason, it didn’t.
So I walked away from that life to disappear and create a self-induced midlife crisis. That brought me to writing, where I delve into topics like meaning, identity, and the terrifying risk of feeling anything at all.
At The Way of Work, I write essays about work, reinvention, and modern success myths. My fiction (debut novel coming soon) blends propulsive action with psychological and philosophical bite.
Join me and I’m sure we’ll knock out the big questions, while remaining the center of attention. It’s the simple things, right?
Cheers, Rick
Check out my debut novel coming soon…
AN END TO REMEMBER
Forget. Survive. Then remember again.
When civilization falls, an orphan lives by one rule: "forget this to survive." Forget his pain. Forget his past. And forget the unforgivable moment he failed the people he loved most.
It’s been several years since the Wild spread, an infection that turned people on each other. Inside a walled-off camp, survivors send him and other orphans into the city’s ruins on deadly supply runs. The rules are simple: come back with a full pack, or don’t come back at all.
To survive, the orphans will need to organize as a team. But they’ll also need something more: a reason to be remembered. But hope can be the bait for something far worse.
Friends get taken. Memories and madness collide. The camp nears collapse. And the boy must choose between the numbness that kept him alive and confronting the past he buried — one that unravels the truth about the Wild and the truth about his parents. A truth so sharp it could break him.
In the end, it may be easier to fear the monsters than face what made them.
AN END TO REMEMBER is a propulsive survival story on the surface, that explores the weight of inheriting a broken world, the impulse to numb ourselves to reality, and the myths we create when the truth is too much to hold.
Fans of The Last of Us and Wool will enjoy this psychological survival story that asks: how do you stay human when the world forgets?
And yes, it has an ending you’ll definitely remember.
The Way of Work
Stories of people pushing work past its limits.
