My Love, My Boss
He finished whatever he was reading, closed the folder, and looked at me.
"Carlson said you have something."
"A framework. It needs more work."
"Everything needs more work. Tell me what you have."
I told him.
I kept it tight — the core of the idea, the emotional mechanism of it, the reason it would work in ways that the previous approaches hadn't. I watched his face while I talked. He didn't nod. He didn't give the small verbal affirmations that people use to signal engagement. He just listened with that same total, weighted quality I'd noticed in the morning meeting, and when I finished, he said nothing for a full six seconds.
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