Inside Severance’s Ridiculous, Revolutionary Self-Help Manifesto, ‘The You You Are’

The book glows like an orange beacon in a sea of blue office chairs, its cover a cross between Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth and the poster for The 40-Year-Old Virgin. From the front of The You You Are, “a spiritual biography of you,” author Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD, peers earnestly, sporting a maroon turtleneck and feathered hair—Steve Jobs in bard cosplay. “What does ‘camaraderie’ mean?” asks one typically absurd page. “Most linguists agree it comes from the Latin ‘camera,’ which means ‘a device used to take a photograph.’ And of course, the best photographs are not of individuals,… Read Full Article