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I love frameworks that divide behavior & personality into categories because of how they help us transcend the idea that there is a right or wrong way to be. 1/
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They don’t do so by saying that “it’s wrong to believe there is a right or wrong way to be.” That would be a performative contradiction. 2/
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Instead they add dimensionality to the question. A personality type framework asks, “Right or wrong for whom?” A developmental framework asks, “Right or wrong for what stage of one’s life?” 3/
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“Add dimensionality” is a mathy way of saying “add more context”. Rabkin's Dictum: If you don't understand something, it's because you aren't aware of its context. 4/
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As a student of computing science, I am endlessly fascinated by the idea that we overcome binary thinking by adding more digits. 5/
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indeed i recall a conversation with a while back about adding dimensions to 2x2 matrices and he seemed to think that people weren't down with (hyper)cubes
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Yeah, it could be a mental strain & harder to visualize. I think a 2x2 should be like an aphorism, giving the reader a nudge but plenty of space to work out the implications themselves
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