Structural Overload

You automated a report that used to take someone else three hours. Now you own the report, the data pipeline behind it, and two additional dashboards nobody asked

There’s a specific kind of meeting where you can watch this happen in real time. A problem gets raised. Nobody volunteers. The room goes quiet for four seconds.

The fuller version of this is here: Why Does Everything End Up on Me at Work? → The pull is quiet but inescapable. Nothing moves outward. You didn’t