Man, you guys, I went down a rabbit hole tonight. It was a new kind of filter of how to view organizational dynamics. Super exciting (for us nerds). I was excited to share it here, and was prepping a post in real time with passages that struck me as particularly helpful.

You can probably tell by now, but this is not that post.

The idea that I was chasing so excitedly started wobbling at the end and went off the rails at the end, straight on over the cliffs of nihilism.

It is very difficult to swim back to shore after going off those cliffs (you lose your breath from the long fall and the water is deadly cold) so I really can’t share without first combing over where things started to go wrong. (It was probably when the author took a limited, situational analysis of people in workplace roles and tried to expand it to classes of people in general.)

I might share more later, because I think the original heuristic will be helpful, once you divest it of its fake cosmic significance.