I actually take the text of Ender’s Game pretty seriously as a model; I think it offers a lot of good perspective on human morality and interaction. So I actually have the example of the toon leaders bodyguarding Ender as a salient … um … parable? … in my head already, and would view that as a sign I’d succeeded.
We’ve already got a Bean; his name is Eli Tyre. His position as second-in-command didn’t exist through the whole eight months of planning this until 12 hours before I posted the charter. Similarly, the more credible responsibility others can take, the more I get to do less; the only block here is credibly believing that the people taking power will do the right thing on all the levels of meta, or setting up scaffolds such that damage-from-mistakes is minimized and survivable.
As for Nikolais, the first priority is the sign of the derivative (are you progressing positively), the second priority is the derivative (is your progress steep), and a distant, distant third is your actual position (are you in fact now good at X). A major part of the point of the house is to make everyone, myself included, feel a bit like Nikolai? i.e. we want everyone to be at the edge of their growth. But similarly, we want every Nikolai to have a Bean … hence the tight-knit, do-things-together, check-in one-on-one social structure.
I … think that answered your questions? Let me know if I missed something important.
I actually take the text of Ender’s Game pretty seriously as a model; I think it offers a lot of good perspective on human morality and interaction. So I actually have the example of the toon leaders bodyguarding Ender as a salient … um … parable? … in my head already, and would view that as a sign I’d succeeded.
We’ve already got a Bean; his name is Eli Tyre. His position as second-in-command didn’t exist through the whole eight months of planning this until 12 hours before I posted the charter. Similarly, the more credible responsibility others can take, the more I get to do less; the only block here is credibly believing that the people taking power will do the right thing on all the levels of meta, or setting up scaffolds such that damage-from-mistakes is minimized and survivable.
As for Nikolais, the first priority is the sign of the derivative (are you progressing positively), the second priority is the derivative (is your progress steep), and a distant, distant third is your actual position (are you in fact now good at X). A major part of the point of the house is to make everyone, myself included, feel a bit like Nikolai? i.e. we want everyone to be at the edge of their growth. But similarly, we want every Nikolai to have a Bean … hence the tight-knit, do-things-together, check-in one-on-one social structure.
I … think that answered your questions? Let me know if I missed something important.