Read This If You’re Feeling Behind

Expectations of availability and output are out of alignment with being human.

“Why can’t I get everything done? Why am I so behind? Will I ever catch up?”

A few years ago, I was talking to a senior leader at an aerospace engineering firm. Much of his work involved calculating advanced risk and probability at the highest levels of math.

At one point, an adjacent team asked him to compute all the possible likelihoods and outcomes. W…