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Capable people rarely fail for lack of skill. They fail because pressure degrades the signal they need to choose well, and they never see it happen.

Signal Loss is the book that names what happens to leadership judgment under sustained pressure, and the structural conditions that restore it. Join the waitlist for first access, the pre-order bonus, and launch week.

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Signal Loss: Why Capable Leaders Stop Choosing Under Pressure, by Dharma Funder

The Premise

The failure is not the decision. It is what happens before it.


We tend to study decisions at the moment of choice. Signal Loss argues the damage is already done by then.

Under pressure, the quality of the information reaching you degrades, your capacity to hold competing inputs narrows, and your tolerance for the discomfort of choosing drops. The result looks like indecision, over-analysis, or a rushed call. The cause is upstream. This is Decision Access Loss™: capability does not fall, access to it narrows.

Most leaders treat the symptom and push harder on the decision. The book treats the cause: the load that distorts the signal in the first place.

One Frame From The Book

When load rises, capacity fails in a predictable order.

The value is not the list. It is the order. If you know signal goes first, you stop trying to fix a decision problem with more analysis and start protecting the conditions that let you choose at all.

  1. Signal. You stop noticing what matters. Noise and what matters start to look the same.
  2. Containment. You lose the ability to hold two competing truths without collapsing one.
  3. Consequence. You discount the second-order cost to make the discomfort stop.

Who It Is For

For leaders who recognize the pattern but have never had structural language for it.

Senior executives, founders, and high-responsibility operators who are still performing externally but can feel something has narrowed inside the decision. If you have watched a capable person freeze, hedge, or default at the worst possible moment, that is the territory this book maps.

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  • First access when Signal Loss releases, ahead of any public announcement.
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© 2026 Rebecca Funder. Signal Loss is a book title protected by copyright (filed). Decision Access Loss™ and The Decision Access Map™ are proprietary to Rebecca Funder. Dharma Funder® is a registered trademark of Rebecca Funder. Unauthorized reproduction, adaptation, or commercial use is prohibited.

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