When people in business take big offense to an honest question or offer that is within reasonable requests, they are a bad actor who uses the power of fear of upsetting them to set the terms for how you will engage them, and to make you think twice and three times to make asks to them that they might not like. Everyone who reaches for control through invisible means is a bad actor: full stop. Every act for a greater good as they define it that reduces the awareness of a perso

Most people mistake comfort for truth. They confuse familiarity for rightness. They defend norms because their nervous system learned to equate deviation with threat.Rules are provisional until they survive being tested and challenged for their worth over and over again, with no rest. Morality is often conditional until it proves utility. Social comfort is irrelevant unless it optimizes mission outcomes. Sometimes in life things feel right because that is what we repeatedly h