You can hold the gas pedal down the whole way. You'll get there. You'll also cook the engine, and you won't be able to describe a single thing you passed. Coasting isn't quitting. It's what keeps the car working.

My payoff comes at the end of the day, silently, in a journal, in a currency she can't spend. She doesn't get any of it in real time. What she gets in real time is a guy at a desk with his head down who isn't laughing. I got paid. She watched me not get paid.