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Findings from The Incentives Are Working
What the people who paid the highest personal cost in purpose-driven work taught me about extractive system design. Participants are described by role and sector only.
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Field note22 Sep 2026Where you end and your role beginsThe system didn’t create the self-sacrifice schema; it found it, and it runs it.→Field note11 Aug 2026The work nobody seesInvisible labour keeps organisations alive while appearing in no job description, and having your expertise ignored is its own kind of injury.→Field note21 Jul 2026Silence is load-bearingTaboo decides what can’t be named and stigma decides what we become if we name it, while silence is what holds the whole thing up.→Field note7 Jul 2026A wound to integrityMoral injury doesn’t resolve through rest, only through changed conditions or a coherent exit.→
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Letters from the map
New writing as it’s published, news of the deck, and the occasional note on the work.