I Couldnt Write While I Was Paying the Tax

For almost a year, I didn’t publish anything. Not because I didn’t have opinions. Not because I stopped caring. But because I was struggling. I was navigating the same things I was trying to write about: Scaling pressure. Coordination overload. Process multiplying faster than value. The quiet emotional weight of leadership. And I found it hard to give recommendations while I was still inside the fog. It felt dishonest to write “how to lead clearly” when I was figuring it out myself. So I stopped