Writing feedback from general readers pushes you toward the median reader. For a writer whose value prop is high specificity (😎), there'd be a version of anticipatory carelessness if I were to trim it down for the general audience (or algorithm if I’m chasing the Likes). It'd be optimizing for readers who were never going to subscribe, at the cost of the ones who did.

I figured this out this week while writing an essay about the same pattern in my day-to-day relationships. The carelessness wound that comes from being twice-exceptional (AuDHD + gifted), the mirror inverse where I unintentionally do it back, and the practice that resolves it: making yourself legible without conditions, then letting the world respond.

The Note you're reading is the practice. The article is the longer version. Too long for some. That's the point.

I Sit on the Island. New today.