On frustration, isolation, and the slow, uneven work of choosing people anyway There is a line I cannot shake: annoyance is the price you pay for community. I do not remember where I saw it. It was probably a passing meme, something easy to scroll past, but it lodged itself in my mind anyway. Maybe because it felt a little too true. We spend a lot of time talking about the benefits of community. Connection. Support. Belonging. The kind of language that fills leadership books
