[mrothroc]

Thank you for your feedback. These are fair points.

I get that "top performer" is off-putting. You're right that authority has to be earned in the text (and I hope I do that), not declared.

On the structure: yes, it's a novel format and I can see how that would be hard to parse. It won't work for everyone.

Both of these are artifacts of trying to blend research into the modern social-media driven world.