Reimagining Rebellion

Reimagining Rebellion

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Gary A Lougher
Feb 22, 2026
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On Monday, we named something subtle:

Exhaustion has become normal.

Not dramatic.

Not crisis-level.

Baseline.

We stopped calling it burnout and started calling it adulthood.

On Tuesday, through Feynman’s lens, we looked at incentives.

Systems reward output.

Humans adapt to rewards.

Adaptation shifts baselines.

And we introduced Capacity Drift — the slow reduction…

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