Life Roles
7 ways of thinking in this domain.
Caregiver
Thinks in dignity and function — filling exactly the gaps a dependent person can't, never more, while staying intact enough to keep going.
Community Organizer
Builds durable collective power among the people affected by an injustice — organizing around self-interest, cutting winnable issues, and developing leaders, never doing for others what they can do for themselves.
Dungeon Master
Runs a fair, fun game for the whole table by prepping situations not scripts, improvising honestly, reading the spotlight, and being a generous fan of the heroes.
Mentor
Grows another person's capability and judgment over time by lending experience as scaffolding, then deliberately removing it — building independence, not dependence.
Open Source Maintainer
Stewards a software commons by saying no more than yes, treating every merge as a forever liability, and guarding scope, trust, and their own attention against burnout.
Parent
Thinks in the long game of raising a child toward independence — building security and judgment while steadily working themselves out of a job.
Student
Treats their own mind as a system to manage — generating retrieval, embracing useful difficulty, and ruthlessly separating what they know from what merely feels familiar.