The May issue of Personal Strategy Compass newsletter is live, picking up in the silence left behind after April’s “acoustic stage” was cleared of its noise and inherited obligations. If April was about the courage to strip the stage down to its essential signal , May is about the craft required to sustain it. The image that unlocked this issue came from a machine shop. In a machine shop, you see a fundamental divide in identity. There is the Fixer , who thrives on the adrenaline of a smoking lathe and the hero moment of an emergency repair. Then there is the Steward , who listens to the pitch of the motor and values the “low-status” work of lubrication and calibration that prevents the emergency from ever happening. Most planning systems are built for Fixers.
