The numbers don’t show what’s missing because what’s missing has no line item.

Capacity is the prerequisite, not the reward.

You can’t deploy trust, taste, judgement, or relationships without it. And you can’t build it while you’re running on fumes.

Capacity isn’t the reward you get when the business is running properly.

It’s the prerequisite. The first thing. The condition without which nothing else holds.

I am a high-functioning introvert.

Two days of being on costs me three days of being good for nothing.

The math is brutal. It doesn’t improve with practice.