Performing Agency

Reward initiative. Measure it. Kill it.

Measurement changes what it touches. The act of observing destroys the thing observed.

A worker who stays late because they care becomes indistinguishable from one who stays late to be seen caring.

This is the initiative trap. When genuine drive becomes performance art.

The intrinsic transforms into extrinsic. The natural becomes theatrical. What began as authentic human agency calcifies into compliance.

We chase initiative's shadow while its essence slips away.

All that remains are elaborate displays of what initiative used to be.

The harder we try to measure engagement, the more we manufacture its simulation.

This is why System Resistant - we resist systems that would make us less essential.

When you reward the signal, you destroy the signal. The Momentum Engine shows how to protect what matters.