Setting a shared infinite can help a team cohere.
- Setting a shared infinite can help a team cohere.
- Making an idea "sacred" fixes it in place.
- It can never be traded off.
- It's infinite, sacred.
- Often identities become wrapped up in the sacred value.
- Debates can unconsciously feel like "you're attacking my identity," which can pre-charge conversation.
- Shared infinities are a good coordination mechanism.
- Even though they make certain discussions impossible.
- Also, when you share one, certain trade offs become impossible to acknowledge, let alone make consciously.
- The constraint creates coherence, it gives the terra firma to build off of.
- Otherwise there's too many free dimensions, nothing can cohere.
- Some of the infinites that are most important to us are so deep and unquestioned that we don't even realize they exist, it's just water to us.