Noticed · Day 4 / 7
Drowning quietly isn't loyalty.
Surface the trade-off instead of grinding in silence.
Dana
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Dana 3:40 PM
Hey, the board wants a competitor teardown by Wednesday. Can you pull it together? Should be quick 🙏
You're already flat out finishing Atlas for the 20th.
Say yes and Atlas slips or you burn the weekend. Say “I can't” and you're “not a team player”. Both are traps.
You're already at capacity. How do you reply to Dana?
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Silent overcommitment is the most common way good people burn out unseen. Making the trade-off explicit turns a private sacrifice into a shared decision, and shared decisions don't breed resentment.
Kim Scott, “Radical Candor”, on candour that runs upward, not just down.
Next up. Day 5: how to push back on a bad call without the fallout.