Disruptive Empathy

Disruptive Empathy

Opening Doors Without Breaking Your System

The empathy SLA

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Eric Near
Oct 16, 2025
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The startup world runs on a deep paradox. We preach the values of the Agile Manifesto (valuing individuals and interactions over rigid processes), yet we often treat our people like fungible resources (or worse, like server capacity that can be infinitely scaled up). I’ve spent twenty years on every side of the console (from infrastructure to product to…

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