By Edo Segal
The performance review I never questioned was my own.
Not the one my board gave me. Not the one the market delivered every quarter. The one I administered to myself, silently, continuously, in the space between waking and the first prompt of the day. The one that asked: What did you ship? What did you miss? What could you have done if you had pushed harder, slept less, said yes to the thing you said no to?
I thought that voice was mine. My ambition. My drive. The engine that had carried me through three decades of building.
Ulrich Bröckling showed me the voice was manufactured.
Not by a conspiracy. Not by a villain. By something more pervasive and harder to fight — a regime of self-governance so thorough
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