I’m working on a post to reconcile these. It’s a very hard one, so it’s at least a few weeks away even if all goes well. I do think they fit together—the one is about individual actions and the other is about overall situations, and the levels are mostly the same.
Thinking of Level 3 as purely ‘what team you are on’ is narrower than I was aiming for there. I was trying for a more general form of indicating what things/groups you want to support/oppose or raise/lower in status, etc. Every simplification has its cost and even at 5k words for a part 1 I had to simplify in a lot of places.
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.
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)
I’m working on a post to reconcile these. It’s a very hard one, so it’s at least a few weeks away even if all goes well. I do think they fit together—the one is about individual actions and the other is about overall situations, and the levels are mostly the same.
Thinking of Level 3 as purely ‘what team you are on’ is narrower than I was aiming for there. I was trying for a more general form of indicating what things/groups you want to support/oppose or raise/lower in status, etc. Every simplification has its cost and even at 5k words for a part 1 I had to simplify in a lot of places.
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.
That post seems to now be out
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)