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Day 44

of 204+ daily pages • 2026-05-14

“At thirty-two, Rohan was fired. Not for incompetence — his code was elegant, his systems architecture was brilliant, his technical presentations made investors: salivate. He was fired because: his engineering team of twenty-three people filed a collective HR complaint. The complaint: that their CTO made them feel stupid. That he interrupted. That he dismissed ideas with a wave of his hand and the specific contempt of a man who had been: the smartest person in every room since age six and who had never learned: that intelligence without empathy was a weapon.”

The Emotional Intelligence Advantage

Written 2026 • Self-Help

From "Chapter 1: The Intelligence Nobody Taught You"

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