One thing that’s not great about this framing is that since the three things come in an order it’s easy to get into an implicit frame where people with staffs are better than people with shields who are better than people with shells, or at least be worried that other people are doing this. (I have this concern about Kegan levels, for example, and it seems related to PDV’s concerns around circling / NVC.)
So I’d like to push strongly for additional norms around this sort of thing, of the form “and also let’s agree that we won’t criticize people for having a different pattern than us or try to pressure them into ‘leveling up’ from our perspective.”
Is this a social worry (“people will use it as a blugeon”) or an epistemic worry (“people will incorrectly think there’s a hierarchy, but actually they’re all useful frames”)?
I don’t have strong feelings about shell/shield/staff, but I’ve gotten a lot of value out of Kegan levels, and I think the hierarchy is actually a loadbearing part of the theory. (Specifically, it matters that each level is legible to the one after it, but not vice versa.) I endorse being careful about the social implications, but I wouldn’t want that to become a generalized claim that there aren’t skill hierarchies in the territory.
One thing that’s not great about this framing is that since the three things come in an order it’s easy to get into an implicit frame where people with staffs are better than people with shields who are better than people with shells, or at least be worried that other people are doing this. (I have this concern about Kegan levels, for example, and it seems related to PDV’s concerns around circling / NVC.)
So I’d like to push strongly for additional norms around this sort of thing, of the form “and also let’s agree that we won’t criticize people for having a different pattern than us or try to pressure them into ‘leveling up’ from our perspective.”
Is this a social worry (“people will use it as a blugeon”) or an epistemic worry (“people will incorrectly think there’s a hierarchy, but actually they’re all useful frames”)?
I don’t have strong feelings about shell/shield/staff, but I’ve gotten a lot of value out of Kegan levels, and I think the hierarchy is actually a loadbearing part of the theory. (Specifically, it matters that each level is legible to the one after it, but not vice versa.) I endorse being careful about the social implications, but I wouldn’t want that to become a generalized claim that there aren’t skill hierarchies in the territory.
Mostly a social worry.
Yes, important point.