Cognitively Bankrupt? Lean Out.
I spend life calculating the price of a stranger's gaze. It's a tedious alchemy... Manipulating site architecture for the benefit of an LLM, or predicting which digital void is actually worth the breath,... It is a game of high-stakes modeling and mental gymnastics that demands every scrap of mindshare. And after years in the agency world, navigating the oversight of various teams and being responsible for millions in revenue with the expectation of 30% growth every year, I've realized that I am simply cognitively bankrupt. Even though I work remotely, and I don't see my colleagues faces in the flesh... I see them also equally drained with flickering energy. We aren't physically tired. That would be romantic. We are mentally skeletal. The "hustle" hasn't made us better. It's made us translucent. Thee world loves t talk about "leaning in" or the pedestrian laziness of "quiet quitting." I find both revolting. Instead, I am adv...
