Half a Person

On a free day spent trying to get an AI tool to build a roadmap for me, and the older habit underneath it: reaching for something outside myself rather than sitting with the thinking I actually needed to do.

On the instinct that makes me fold under pressure from bosses, peers, and people I manage alike, and the theory that the very same trait has quietly kept me employed for two decades.

On being new in a senior role and mistaking a workload problem for a competence problem. And trying to tell the difference between being stretched thin and not being enough.