Field Notes #10

Field Notes #9 taught you 17×34 — complicated, repeatable, a sequence that always works. Field Notes #11 will show you why that distinction matters. This one sits between them.

When you were coming up, your blind spots had consequences. You paid for them. Then something shifted — slowly, then all at once. You got good enough that people needed you in the room, whether you had blind spots or not. The misalignment didn't stop. The bill just got forwarded to everyone around you. Three layers deep: how you think became unchecked, how you read the room became optional, and the stories you tell yourself about who you are became everyone else's reality. Not because those stories were true, but because your value made them unquestionable.

The man in the mirror isn't aspirational. He's confrontational. And aspiration without a hard reflective surface is just feeling good about yourself while everyone else absorbs the cost.

THIS IS NOT TRAINING. IT'S CALIBRATION.

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– Robert (Sherpa) Millar | Bespoke Compass