Day 1: Map Your Identity Contradictions

Instructions

Part 1: List 5–10 ways people have described you or roles you've played

• Include job titles, labels others use, identities you've tried on
• Be specific: "Product manager at X" not just "PM"

Part 2: For each identity, write

• What it makes legible about you
• What it hides or distorts
• Why you couldn't stay in it (or haven't fully committed to it)

Part 3: Identify the patterns

• What capabilities show up across multiple identities but don't fit any single one?
• What questions can you answer that none of these identities explain?
• What positions can you model that these identities don't capture?

Part 4: The synthesis

• Write 2–3 paragraphs describing what you actually do in terms of capabilities and perspectives, not identities
• Then try to compress it into a single identity label
• Note what gets lost in the compression
• This is the gap that games will solve

Submission format

• PDF or markdown document
• Must include all four parts
• Part 4 synthesis must be specific enough that someone could verify your claims

What we're looking for

• Recognition that identity labels are lossy compression
• Awareness of what gets lost
• Ability to articulate capability without identity crutches
• Honesty about the contradiction, not resolution of it