iAlign #62 - The Trap Door Ambitious Engineers Fall Through

The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell · Oct 6, 2026 · 9m · transcript

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I was doing bioinformatics work for a biotech group with a big analysis due by the end of the year, and I was badly behind on it. Then they asked me to write something up for a scientific presentation, which was far less work, and I poured myself into that instead and let the main project sit. It did two things for me and neither one was honest. It let me act overwhelmed, like I had too much on my plate, when the truth was I was behind because I hadn't done enough work, and it let the noise of the holidays quietly swallow the thing I'd actually committed to. Nobody came after…