Pyotr Kropotkin

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• SSSovereign Self

  9 / 10
• CECommunal Embeddedness

  8 / 10
• SRSkeptical Reflex

  7 / 10
• UIUniversalist Impulse

  7 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Hilde LindemannFORGE

  In Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair, story becomes a moral practice.

• Anna Julia CooperFORGE

  In A Voice from the South, Black women are the measure of any republic.

• Carol GilliganPILGRIM

  In a Different Voice — ethics of care alongside ethics of justice.

• Rosa MayrederFORGE

  Her Toward a Critique of Femininity treats culture's gender as a constructed prison.

• Tom PaineFORGE

  Rights of Man sets common sense against monarchy and dogma.

• Isabelle StengersPILGRIM

  Cosmopolitics — sciences as practices, slow and risky.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Pyotr Kropotkin's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Premortem →

  Imagine the failure of your plan in vivid detail before you start.

• Steelmanning the opposite →

  Write the strongest possible version of the view you most reject.

• Switch sides →

  Argue both sides of a debate, alternating, until you no longer know which side you started on.