Disruptive Empathy

Disruptive Empathy

Emotional Debt: The Unseen Cost

The Other Kind of Debt

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Eric Near
Aug 19, 2025
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Imagine a project that burnt you out. One that wore you down and took all you had to complete. The kind that’s a Big Deal™ for the company. A project that got its own codename and came up in all-hands meetings. A project that, as startup prophecy tells again and again, way over budget or behind schedule.

You might have done what tech teams do. You buckle…

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