Brandon finds that the lines between virtual and reality sometimes blur—he has supervised zero-gravity experiments bound for the International Space Station, attended countless meetings, toured massive underground construction sites, watched movies, and won hackathons. He’s delivered speeches, sorted genetically engineered fruit flies under a microscope, explored museums, studied scoliosis in a model spine, danced like nobody was watching, and danced like somebody was. What’s been real, and what hasn’t?