Anxiety, risks, and value trade-offs

The complicated tapestry of emotions at work.

One of my big theories about work, since I began working, is that work wants you to be a creature of logic -- hence why we root so much of work in repeatable processes (well, that and scale). The reality is that human beings are emotional creatures, and that creates a major work dichotomy. Within that dichotomy, you get into a lot of other issues, such …