Jordan Vallejo, PMP®
Introduction
I write philosophical essays about how we interpret one another, and what it takes to stay honest without doing harm.
Essays
Updated occasionally.
Crabs in a Bucket
A public essay on the social urge to pull others down
Success can create unexpected resistance. This essay looks at the social dynamics behind “crab mentality” and why change often feels threatening to those around it.
The Price of Precision
A public essay on why truth hurts
Precision is praised until it produces obligation. This essay examines the social cost of accuracy and why clarity is often resisted when it makes consequence unavoidable.
Additional essays are shared selectively.
Access is available on request.
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Ticket to Anywhere
A personal essay on the aftermath of completion
This essay defines Integration Lag: the period after completion when the work has ended but recovery has not begun.
It examines why distress can persist after effort stops, why relief does not follow clarity on command, and why recovery resists being turned into another task.
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When Words Stop Working
A personal essay on good faith
This essay examines communication failure without malice.
It distinguishes unwillingness from incapacity, and explores the limits of explanation when a conversational channel has closed. It argues that leaving can be an ethical act rather than a rejection.
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Refusal Without Rejection
A personal essay on interpretive restraint
This essay argues that interpretation cannot be suspended, only restrained.
It examines the work of resisting premature conclusions and the discipline of naming impact without assigning intent. It defines refusal as restraint rather than withdrawal.
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The Credibility Hinge
A personal essay on caretaking
This essay examines how continuous pain signals strain caretaking capacity.
It introduces the credibility hinge: the moment when capacity limits become evaluation. It analyzes how saturation converts care into assessment, and why naming this shift matters.
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No Witness
A personal essay on grief without witness
This essay examines epistemic loneliness as the absence of witness rather than the absence of people.
It traces the effects of sustained misrecognition and credibility testing, and the cost of having one’s reality repeatedly translated into something safer or simpler.
