The Harder You Work, The Behinder You Get
"Behind" is not a measurement. It is a judgment somebody made against a standard somebody set, and the first useful question is who set it.
Chris Sims has spent a career watching teams answer that badly. The founders whose own strengths quietly became the company's bottleneck. The engineers whose hardest-won expertise stopped being the valuable thing. The leaders whose answer to falling behind was to stay later. They have a line for it, from a mentor who was trying to get them to see it about themself: the harder I work, the behinder I get.
This is a conversation about why the obvious…
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