Nobody Gets Promoted for Maintenance
Institutions celebrate the people who begin things and quietly spend the people who keep them alive. This essay explores invisible work, the capability trap, who gets asked to carry low-promotability tasks, and what it would take to reward maintenance.
Integrity Is Not a Labor Strategy
After ten years of trying to build a humane workplace in mental health, I no longer believe good leadership guarantees reciprocity. This essay explores what integrity can — and cannot — do inside a culture that increasingly treats work as transaction.