The Woman Who Took the Stairs for Eleven Years

Meet Petra Osei, who's very good at her job and has never once looked at the number that says so.

There is one screen in Petra Osei's overlay that she has never opened. Eleven years at the same firm, the system scoring every day of it, and she has never once looked at the result.

There are people in this world who would call that discipline. Purists spend whole lifetimes learning to let the overlay flicker past unread, and they can tell you exactly why: alien categories, no consent, a number with no right to decide. A Purist refuses the verdict as illegitimate.…