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

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.