Following the four tenets of the Golden State Warriors (joy, mindfulness, compassion, and competition), an American expat in Berlin uses basketball as a lens through which to view the world around him and discover the meaning of life. In 2016, Shane Anderson made a vow to live according to the four core values of the Golden State Warriors to escape a decade of defeats--including divorce, debilitating spinal surgery and a suicide attempt. The basketball team's values of joy, mindfulness, compassion and competition became Anderson's guiding principles, providing him with a lens to investigate the emptiness of contemporary life, from homelessness to rave culture and the limits of self-help. Part memoir, part essay and part chronicle of the greatest five-year stretch of a team in NBA history, After the Oracle depicts the makes and misses of one expat trying to make a life worth living.