For most of my life, I’ve been trying to understand systems. Not just how they work, but how they feel to live inside. Work. Politics. Technology. Culture. Power. What I’ve learned, slowly and sometimes uncomfortably, is that many of the systems we rely on today are efficient but incomplete. They optimize for growth, speed, or control, but they often fail to account for the full range of human experience. We ask people to grind to survive. We reward those who rise fastest. We