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Podcast Episode Season 1 Communication Architecture ~7 min · April 2026

You're Not Burned Out.
You're Misrouted.

An early episode of the podcast, recorded as a complete reading of the essay. The full written version is linked below.

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An early episode of The Autistic Leader Podcast, recorded as a reading of the essay below. It reframes a cost that looks like personal burnout as something structural: signal getting misrouted between different cognitive architectures, a mind whose thinking has to be translated into the dominant style and loses half of it in transit. The full written version is The Translation Tax.

The full text The Translation Tax This episode is a complete, word-for-word reading of the essay. The written version, with the framework it points to, is the canonical text. Read the essay →

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