Lost in the soft glow of compounding growth, we float on the false promise of workplaces whose culture books take more than they give. We pledge hours to dashboards that forget us, solve problems that won’t thank us, and chase exits with equity that dilutes faster than it vests.

Diminishing Returns gathers fragments of the stories we tell ourselves in pursuit of infinite scale. It holds up venture logic, at once optimistic and oppressive: capital that fuels growth and crowds out humanity, velocity that unlocks potential and outruns craft, a sense of value that swells until it begins to question itself.