
The 3:00 AM Compensation Cycle: Burnout, Spreadsheets, and the Tradition We Refuse to Question
There is a specific kind of silence you only hear in an office at 2:47 AM. You are staring at final_v14_reallyfinal.xlsx, surrounded by cold takeout, wondering why this is the job. It’s time to ask: are we holding on to the chaos of the compensation cycle because it works, or just because it’s how we learned to prove our value?





















