The hierarchy in a social group depends on context.
- The hierarchy in a social group depends on context.
- There can be multiple contexts interleaved at any given time.
- Imagine a conversation with coworkers about wine.
- In one context, who's the boss matters.
- In another, the person who's the expert about wine matters.
- Human contexts are impossible to cleanly separate.
- They are fundamentally fractal and overlapping, and always squishy.