Jordan Vallejo, PMP®
Introduction
I write essays about how we interpret one another, and what it takes to stay honest with care.
Essays
Updated occasionally.
Inside a Paradigm
A public essay on the experience of being right
Sometimes conflict isn’t about facts. It’s about what can count as a fact inside a shared frame. This essay explores why disagreement turns personal, and how perception is shaped long before belief.
Truth Hurts
A public essay on the price of precision
Precision is praised until it produces obligation. This essay explores the social cost of accuracy and why clarity is often resisted when it makes consequence unavoidable.
Crabs in a Bucket
A public essay on the social urge to pull others down
Success can provoke unexpected resistance. This essay examines the social dynamics behind “crab mentality” and why individual change often feels threatening to the groups around it.
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
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When Words Stop Working
A personal essay on good faith
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Refusal Without Rejection
A personal essay on interpretive restraint
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The Credibility Hinge
A personal essay on caretaking
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No Witness
A personal essay on grief without witness
