Read slowly.

The Current Reflection

The Quiet Cost of Overfunctioning at the Top

There is a particular silence that surrounds the most capable people in a room — a silence that looks, from the outside, like steadiness. From the inside, it is closer to depletion.

When senior leaders carry weight that was never theirs to hold, organizations become quietly dependent on a kind of effort no one can sustain.

The Journal is written slowly.
Sometimes a reflection arrives in a week.
Sometimes a season passes between essays.

That pacing is intentional.