What happens when we trade productivity for humanity?

We didn’t mean to do this. We didn’t wake up one day and decide that connection was optional. We chased speed. We chased leverage. We chased tools that promised fewer interruptions and more output. And they delivered. Quietly, efficiently, relentlessly.

Somewhere along the way, we stopped noticing what disappeared. Conversations became messages. Presence became availability. Thinking out loud became thinking alone. We didn’t lose our teams. We optimized them out of our daily lives. And now an already lonely job feels emptier than it ever has.

The Sprint Toward Efficiency

Ever since COVID, the startup world has not just adopted remote work. We embraced it at full speed. Slack replaced hal...