This week, our cube-cows discover the hyena has already rewritten yesterday’s meeting minutes: turns out the hyena’s Copilot archived objections as “constructive buy-in.”

Brains compress the world into layers and rank, then route attention upward, so local noise gets summarized before it reaches a decision. That is why pyramid-like groups feel obvious: a few signals at the top, many roles below, a ladder everyone can read. Hierarchy is an attractor: groups keep sliding into a pyramid. Flatter systems need counter-design (written rules and shared maps), because the nervous system is already used to climbing.

Your ego runs like a game engine your brain keeps active in the background. The pain feels real because it borrows the same circuits as physical injury, but the game itself is a simulation. If you want to evolve, recognize it is not real.