Unscrunching

• See also Scrunching

• 2026-02-01

• Yesterday, I invented a term for the very first time in my life (?) - “A” Drought

• And now I’m inventing a new one! Well, two

• I was calling this “Kegan 5 unclenching”, now I’m gonna call it “unscrunching”, much better

From “Being Kegan 4 is dumb, 2026-01-31”

• But, if you’re stressing out about the implications of your Kegan 4 model, remember that it’s just a model, and none are right
• The Kegan 5 shift is from subject to object. You from from being subject to your world view, immersed in it, it being transparent to you, something that holds you, to being able to step back from it, see it as just one world view of many (infinite amounts?). So you can drop that line of thought, the panic, unclench, chill out
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• 👆 there’s something here about how with a serious meditation practice, you gradually let go, unclench, and discover a lot more “optionality”, a lot more “degrees of freedom”. The manifold(s) you were existing in were limiting the size of your move set, and now you can step back.
• I saw a tweet (which I’ve since lost) that was like “‘unclench’ is a complete meditation instruction”
• It currently feels right to me (blended with my Kegan 4 model, foregrounding certain axioms, lol), that this “technical debt” could be the mix of your Kegan 4 “opinions/values”, and also “trauma”, which are like, “stuck priors that were useful to you back then but are now suboptimal” (e.g., “if I’m quiet around men, they won’t snap at me” working for you to not get snapped at by your grandad, but now as an adult causing you to be somewhat uncomfortable around all men)
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• Post I wanna read - “technical debt, meditation, and minds"

"Train a little noticer for a phenomenon of your choice”

• I want to train a lil noticer for the phenomenon of “blending with an axiom/worldview/preference and becoming subject to it, treating it as True and Important and Something That Must Be Acted Upon Right Now”
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