Yeah, I do realize you were still aiming for a broader thing with Level 3 than the way it crystallized in my head. I think there’s still some difference between how job titles were treated in the original example and (my understanding of) the somewhat broader point you were making in the Covid post.
(i.e. I think your more recent paragraph of “a more general form of indicating what things/groups you want to support/oppose or raise/lower in status, etc” still feels a bit different than the Job Titles thing. Specifically, Stage 3 in Bullshit Titles is when they’re actually sort of beginning to lower in status, while other complicated stuff is going where the shared map is breaking down. The differences in 2/3/4 in the original example felt less distinct to me than they felt in your recent post. And, to be clear, your recent post mostly felt more useful than what came before, by virtue of simplifying things into a particular wrong-but-usefully-clear-map)
So, yes, these two things look distinct and are importantly different, but I hope to do a unified theory thing in a month or two. Stay tuned.
Looking forward. (And, to be clear, I expect this to be a huge job, I’m mostly hoping we’ve gotten more clarity on it over the course of the next year, more than I’m hoping/expecting you to make concrete progress on the timescale of weeks)
Yeah, I do realize you were still aiming for a broader thing with Level 3 than the way it crystallized in my head. I think there’s still some difference between how job titles were treated in the original example and (my understanding of) the somewhat broader point you were making in the Covid post.
(i.e. I think your more recent paragraph of “a more general form of indicating what things/groups you want to support/oppose or raise/lower in status, etc” still feels a bit different than the Job Titles thing. Specifically, Stage 3 in Bullshit Titles is when they’re actually sort of beginning to lower in status, while other complicated stuff is going where the shared map is breaking down. The differences in 2/3/4 in the original example felt less distinct to me than they felt in your recent post. And, to be clear, your recent post mostly felt more useful than what came before, by virtue of simplifying things into a particular wrong-but-usefully-clear-map)
Looking forward. (And, to be clear, I expect this to be a huge job, I’m mostly hoping we’ve gotten more clarity on it over the course of the next year, more than I’m hoping/expecting you to make concrete progress on the timescale of weeks)