What I mean by being the observer is that when I was about to perform—way back when I put on my bar mitzvah suit and walked into Zia’s—I’d tell myself that I wasn’t Oz Pearlman. Instead, I was Oz the Entertainer, the precursor to Oz the Mentalist. And if people rejected or didn’t like Oz the Entertainer, that wasn’t Oz Pearlman’s problem. I turned myself into a character, meaning I separated myself and my psyche from the task at hand. I was no longer the actor; I was the observer. I made a conscious decision to not internalize how people would react to me because they weren’t reacting to the real me.

Even now, public opinion on Earth remained divided as to whether Blue Space’s actions during the dark battle should be classified as self-defense or murder.

Needless to say, acquiring the hard side of the network and keeping them happy is paramount to standing up an atomic network. To understand the motivations of these users, let’s describe one of the largest networked products ever built—Wikipedia.