The Basics Guide

Tag: Narrative Framing

  • Cassandra’s Dress – Unfashionable Clarity

    Clarity that arrives before the group is ready is rarely welcomed. It breaks rhythm. It lacks the timing that makes ideas acceptable. In many social environments, especially those governed by trend, timing isn’t just important—it’s everything.

  • Attention is Agency

    Many systems—biological, social, cognitive, technological—don’t eliminate internal tensions; they govern them. At their core lies a structure: two enduring opposites and a mediating force. The opposites remain; the mediator governs their expression. This isn’t merely synthesis or compromise. This leads to agency.

  • The Mediator Triad

    At the base of many dynamic systems lies a familiar structure: two enduring opposites and a third element that governs their interaction. These are not static binaries—they are living polarities in active, mediated opposition: traits, values, forces, or strategies that remain in tension over time. Together, all three form a triad.

  • Crystallization of Concepts

    Crystallization of Concepts

    Ideas don’t always arrive fully formed. Often, people orbit around a shared intuition, a loose goal, or a sense of emerging possibility. There’s motion, experimentation, maybe even momentum—but no clear definition. Then something happens.