https://owntheleap.com/tags/first-client-call/Recent content in First Client Call on Own The LeapHugoen-usTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://owntheleap.com/posts/the-part-that-traveled/Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://owntheleap.com/posts/the-part-that-traveled/<p>The call was eighteen minutes. I know because I checked the time after we hung up, in the same automatic way I have checked the time after calls for twenty-four years, and found myself waiting to know if that was good or bad.</p> <p>It does not mean anything. I know that. Eighteen minutes, twenty-five minutes, forty: I built those interpretations inside an institutional frame with shared expectations about what a call like this is for. I no longer have that frame. What I have is that the call happened, it was eighteen minutes, and now I am sitting at my desk at 11:47am on a Tuesday trying to figure out what I learned.</p>