Actors belong on film sets, scientists belong in laboratories, and inventors belong somewhere among wires, blueprints, and workbenches filled with half-assembled machines. When someone moves easily between those worlds, the result can be a kind of confusion. People struggle to know which version of the person they are supposed to see.

“People live whole lives, not categories. Workplaces function better when they respond to how humans actually think, rather than how systems assume they should.”