hot take: "naive position - reaction - synthesis/reconciliation" is a much better archetype than kegan stages, which only justify smugness
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I mean I use the stages in my own analogies, but I'm unhappy with them, they're more a hook into existing discussion than a good metaphor
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"back-forth-center" is more general, less self-serving, has no two dead-weight-stages, is composable with itself into larger patterns
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