The Possibility Tax
A boundary framed as self-doubt allows the other person to retain his dignity. But it also allows him to continue negotiating. And that is the trap.
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When Flourishing Becomes Cover
Coming second after an eight-year head start is an unusual basis for a victory speech. A reflection on what happens when generosity becomes an entitlement, someone else’s work becomes an institutional achievement, and the language of human flourishing provides remarkably good cover for making its structurally-vulnerable author disappear.