∆ DELTUM
A vector, not a goal.
A community for people who want to author their own thinking, direction and action.
The white point is you. The field shapes the path; it does not lay it.
The triad of authorship
Psychology knows the “dark triad”: traits through which a person disposes of others. ∆ works on a different triad: traits through which a person disposes of themselves.
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Metaintelligence
Seeing how you think, and changing the way you think.
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Self-sovereignty
Knowing where your goal came from, and keeping the right to revise it.
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Adaptability
Changing how you act when conditions change, or deliberately keeping it.
Three independent axes. No required order, no hierarchy, no single method.
What exists is not necessarily final.
∆ has no final goal and no picture of the “right” person. There is a direction, and a place where people move along it together.
What happens inside
- Taking concepts apart and asking the questions people usually skip.
- Publishing texts, research and objections.
- Trading tools and experience.
- Building projects and small groups.
- Testing approaches, under safe and honest conditions.
Three zones. One door.
The entrance is open to all. The depth is not.
PylonOpen
For anyone who is curious. Conversations by interest, questions, first arguments.
Enter PylonStoaClosed
For those who have shown they reason more deeply and add value to the community.
AkmēClosed
Mentors. People who have come a long way and create material for everyone else.
The way in is not described on this page. It is visible from the inside.
Principles
Bearings, not a charter. Any of them can be challenged, with an argument.
Read the principles in fullFoundations
Every ∆ text is open, and every one is open to revision.
Edition 0.1
- ManifestoA short manifesto of the movement
- OverviewWhat ∆ is, the three directions and shared bearings
- ∆ DELTUM principlesShared bearings and the limits of their application
- Thinking and reflectionThinking, metaintelligence, reflection and critique
- Self-sovereigntySelf-sovereignty and self-determination
- AdaptabilityAdaptability and transforming ways of acting
- AgencyAgency and the capacity to act
- Freedom and the space of the possibleFreedom, the limits of the possible and real conditions
- Ontological bearingsShared assumptions about reality, relations, change and the subject
- Methodology of investigation and transformationInvestigation, discussion and practical work
- ∆ DELTUM terminologyWorking definitions of terms
- ∆ DELTUM community and cultureParticipation, relationships and the culture of the community
- ∆ DELTUM visual identityName, symbol, visual style and public description