Disruptive Empathy

Disruptive Empathy

Why We Starve the Human Firewall

Investing in technical armor while neglecting the people wearing it

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Eric Near
May 19, 2026
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I was sitting at my desk recently, looking at a stack of compliance reports, and I felt that familiar, buzzing hum in my brain that comes when I’ve been staring at a problem for twenty years. It is a specific kind of frustration (one that my ADHD-i brain likes to fixate on) where the solution is obvious but the budget is nonexistent.

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