Since you tagged me over on FB, I’ll see if I can leave some useful thoughts.
Of course what immediately comes to mind is expanding ontological complexity. There’s something about how much complexity a person can manage and how big a space and how many levels up they can handle operating before they get in over their heads.
I think you get it right that the difference between moving “up” to rooms that give you 10x and 100x and 1000x leverage is not a 10/100/1000x increase in complexity. It’s not really a 2x or 5x or whatever increase in complexity to get the larger increase in leverage, either. I think instead this is differentiated by adding levels of recursion to the ontological model and how much recursion you can S1 handle (S2 handling is nice but it doesn’t really count for this since you can’t operate in S2 mode all the time, as much as some folks try).
You might find the way Ken Wilber talks about this stuff interesting. He’s got this multidimensional model thing that feels a bit like overreach, but I think is ultimately just trying to point at the same sort of thing you are here: there’s basically infinite complexity in the world, you can tackle it at different levels, and there’s something to being able to tackle more levels of complexity at once, but also you can just tackle less complexity and that’s okay, you’ll still fill up your life.
Maybe that’s helpful? I’m writing this comment trying to think of what things could be worth pointing to or reminding you of that could help spark further thoughts to help you resolve the seemingly still nebulous idea you’re digging into.
Since you tagged me over on FB, I’ll see if I can leave some useful thoughts.
Of course what immediately comes to mind is expanding ontological complexity. There’s something about how much complexity a person can manage and how big a space and how many levels up they can handle operating before they get in over their heads.
I think you get it right that the difference between moving “up” to rooms that give you 10x and 100x and 1000x leverage is not a 10/100/1000x increase in complexity. It’s not really a 2x or 5x or whatever increase in complexity to get the larger increase in leverage, either. I think instead this is differentiated by adding levels of recursion to the ontological model and how much recursion you can S1 handle (S2 handling is nice but it doesn’t really count for this since you can’t operate in S2 mode all the time, as much as some folks try).
You might find the way Ken Wilber talks about this stuff interesting. He’s got this multidimensional model thing that feels a bit like overreach, but I think is ultimately just trying to point at the same sort of thing you are here: there’s basically infinite complexity in the world, you can tackle it at different levels, and there’s something to being able to tackle more levels of complexity at once, but also you can just tackle less complexity and that’s okay, you’ll still fill up your life.
Maybe that’s helpful? I’m writing this comment trying to think of what things could be worth pointing to or reminding you of that could help spark further thoughts to help you resolve the seemingly still nebulous idea you’re digging into.
Very helpful. Thank you. =)