The Humanity Practice Weekly: 275 interruptions a day. Here's what they cost.
This week I watched Harvey Guillén on The View— he's starring in The Rocky Horror Show right now — and something he said has stayed with me all week.
"Coming out is never for yourself. It's for someone else." Then he added: "I like to reframe it to — not coming out, but letting you in."
It touched my soul. Because in those words, I could hear the vulnerability. The wanting.
And it left me pondering the question underneath it: how many of us are building cultures where people feel safe to let us in? How many of us — as leaders, as colleagues — are practicing the behaviors that let people in?
Because letting people in is a practice.
And what gets in the way of the practice? Our pace. We don't feel as if we can take a moment to let someone in.
This week, I finally saw the number on what it's costing us.
Want to watch it? Start at 4:40.
Your best people are drowning — and everyone calls it commitment.It isn't. It's the pace eating your strongest people and dressing it up as work ethic. The rare leadership move isn't "manage your energy" — it's telling someone buried in volume to do fewer things, well. We protect budget and headcount; we let human capacity get eaten before anyone defends it. The moments that matter aren't only how you treat people on their worst day — they're whether you protect them on their busiest one. Read the full post.
Your team's exhaustion isn't a character flaw. It's structural. Microsoft 's 2025 Work Trend Index found the average employee is interrupted 275 times a day. One in three say the pace of the last five years is unsustainable; 80% say they lack the time or energy to do their jobs well. We keep calling it a productivity problem. It's a humanity problem — when you're interrupted every two minutes, the first thing that disappears is the pause where culture actually gets made. Read the full post.
The moments that matter don't take long. They take a pause — and the pause is the first thing speed deletes. When you catch yourself rushing past someone, stop and name what just happened before you move. You don't need more time. You need to know which ten seconds matter. Explore the practice.
"Perfect doesn't have room for the awkward. Practice does."
Katrina Kibben shared something deeply personal — not for sympathy, but on purpose, because "as leaders and humans, it's so important to hear the stories some people don't feel safe to explain in a 1-1 update." That's making room — out loud — for the people who can't yet. They teach allyship as a practice, not a performance: hard things worth doing even when they're not perfect. While most companies won't invest in the work, Kat keeps teaching anyway. That's a Humanity Practitioner — not a title, an identity. Read the full spotlight.
From the Humanity Practice
Know where the moments are getting missed. The Humanity Practice Snapshot shows you — free — where culture is getting built or broken across your organization, in the everyday moments. If you're the only one holding it, start there. Take the Snapshot.
The cultures worth building aren't always the fastest, or the most perfect. They're the ones where people feel safe to be let in — and protected once they are.
Have an awesome, productive, and impactful week, Rocki
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