This week’s podcast takes a more adult register to Monday morning’s child-oriented content.

If the child-version asks what it feels like when the trouble starts showing, the podcast asks how those signs begin to make sense once we stop treating them as random personal failings. We’ll explore how strain appears in people, roles, teams, and systems, and why what first looks like a confidence issue, an attitude problem, or a weak team may actually be a clue that the work itself has become entangled.

So this episode is really about symptoms: how to notice them, how not to explain them away too quickly, and how to begin reading them more intelligently. In that sense, it sits between the simplicity of the Monday essay and the fuller diagnostic argument of the Friday chapter.

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