Thank you for this @lbotos. Reflecting on why I don't turn to my manager for this has yielded some valuable insights... specifically I think we have some policies in place that _strongly_ disincentivize demonstrating vulnerability. Thus bringing managerial level problems to my manager comes with more risk than is comfortable. Perhaps what I'm seeing is the effect of this policy across the engineering organization.

On the lighter side, the luna/jackbox suggestion is fantastic. We'll definitely give that a try. Thank you.