Issue 07 — The cost of being easy to work with · Aug 19, 2026

Being easy to work with is a virtue right up until it becomes a strategy. Then it starts costing you the exact things it looks like it's protecting: your standards, your prices, and the respect of the people watching how much you'll absorb.

Agreeable leaders don't lose big fights. They lose a hundred small ones they never named, and wake up running a team, or a business, shaped entirely by other people's preferences.

Heart Check

"My worth was never something I had to earn. I arrived with it."

You can be kind without being convenient. The difference is whether the kindness costs you your line or keeps it.

The line worth stealing: "I can be generous with my time and unmovable on my standard. Both are true."