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RANK: The High Cost of Misreading One of Your Own

A raw literary pack story about the cost of illegitimate readings — when a group confidently destroys what it fails to understand.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 25 Jun 2026

RANK: The High Cost of Misreading One of Your Own

Let Go of Other People's BS

Many people become the unofficial problem-solver for family, friends, and workplaces. Learn how overfunctioning, people-pleasing, and emotional labor lead to burnout and why caring is not the same as absorbing.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 15 Jun 2026

The Opportunity Cost of Failing to Protect Employees

When leaders ignore informal power, workplace exclusion, and hidden culture costs, they do not just lose employees. They lose innovation, trust, discretionary effort, and future leadership capacity.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 12 Jun 2026

The Opportunity Cost of Failing to Protect Employees

What Robert Greene Didn't Write About

Power is one thing. Power entering the attachment system is another. This post explores the missing law: belonging.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 12 Jun 2026

When Perfectionism Is Actually the Fear of Being in Trouble

Many forms of perfectionism are driven by fear. Learn how attachment wounds & weaponized limerence can train the nervous system to treat mistakes as danger.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 11 Jun 2026

When Perfectionism Is Actually the Fear of Being in Trouble

Dark Triad: The Huxley Map

A cinematic origin story for Dark Triad: The Huxley Map — the moment your body knows it's being manipulated long before your mind has language for it.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 31 May 2026

It’s Not Obsession. It’s Cultural Anthropology.

There is a difference between obsessing over a wound and studying a pattern. The pattern only becomes clear because someone stays with the evidence long enough to see the structure.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 29 May 2026

It’s Not Obsession. It’s Cultural Anthropology.

Feelings Can Be Real, but the Limerence Structure Was Not

Real feelings can exist inside unsafe weaponized limerence, ambiguity & intermittent reinforcement.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 29 May 2026

Feelings Can Be Real, but the Limerence Structure Was Not

Weaponized Limerence

If Revenge of the Nerds went up against Dark Triad-style workplace behavior, the Nerds would bring their tap-dancing shoes and a fond wish for the future of humanity. The other side would bring weaponized limerence.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 29 May 2026

Why Do I Write Uncanny Fiction?

Trauma blindness and hypervigilance shape the way some stories must be told. I write uncanny fiction to give form to memories that arrive years late—quiet, precise, and colder than expected. Pattern recognition, not escape.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 19 May 2026

TRIANGLES: A Field Guide to Workplace Mobbing & Power Harm

TRIANGLES is a field guide to workplace mobbing, scapegoating, and structural harm. Learn how power organizes through pressure, silence, and survival behavior.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 9 May 2026

TRIANGLES: A Field Guide to Workplace Mobbing & Power Harm

TESTS: How Systems Decide Who Stays and Who Goes

Based on documented cases of workplace mobbing, TESTS was written to how workplaces quietly evaluate, escalate, and remove people through early psychosocial testing behaviors.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 8 May 2026

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