A like on the IG reel below would help us a lot

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We know many people are not happy in their job, and we also know that AI is about to disrupt many more.

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Grok Bot has been getting strong reviews for something that is not "clever chat." People are staffing roles with named agents - sales, support, ops, research - that keep working in real tools, hand work to each other, and update you from an app when you are away from your desk. A staff room, for a tiny fraction of what a human team costs.

I wrote about why that matters, and what comes after. The digital team has arrived. The body is next: humanoid robots put a version of that help into more ordinary lives. Jason Calacanis (All-In) had a private Optimus preview and called it bigger than the iPhone. You can disagree with the forecast. The shape of the change is already visible.

For years I have watched coaches and clinicians talk past each other on personality. Business rooms reach for type systems - colours, letter codes, workshop labels - because they are short, memorable, and start a conversation. Clinical and research rooms want continuum trait science - Big Five and friends - because boxes overclaim and people are not neat types. Both jobs are real. Both sides often act as if the other is broken.

I think we built something that does both jobs in one free system: headlines you can remember, continuum depth when you want it, and more than one area of a person on the same map - personality, sensitivity, motives, worldview. Not "better Big Five than the research batteries." Not "Jungian types are worthless." A practical mapping. I am not claiming the best psychometrics in the world. I might be claiming the most useful start for ordinary people and for rooms that need a shared language.

The article is here: Psychometrics - the best of many worlds. The useful next step is still the same: take the free portrait, and if it helps, send a compare link to someone you know. That is the bit that grows this more than anything else we write.

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The simplest thing you can do for what we are building this week is free and takes a second: follow @whatworldway on Instagram.

In the last few days the first Reels there have taken a few thousand views between them - living stills of the animals (Lion, Owl, Eagle, Dolphin, Wolf) with a plain line, then a free-portrait ask. There is also a short Eagle · Valley piece for anyone who saw the animals and wondered what the whole thing is. The account is still small. Followers are what keep the next posts from starting at zero every time. A follow - or a quiet share of one Reel - helps more there than almost anywhere else we have right now.

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Years ago we ran a Potentialisation Meetup in and around Manchester - talks on how we understand ourselves and each other. The group never quite died; it just went quiet while the work moved into something you can take on a screen.

On Wednesday 22 July at 18:00 BST we are holding a short online evening. About an hour. I will walk through what-world-way - three short free tests:

Most of what I've written to you has been about what what-world-way is. This one is about one small thing you can do with it.

We've added Compare. You take the tests, send a friend a link, and the site reads the two results together - where you clash, and where you'd be strong. Two portraits, side by side.

On its own it's a small feature. What I care about is what it points at: people understanding each other a little better. A driven person and a patient one, seeing in plain words why they clash, and where they'd work well. The kind of connection that usually doesn't start unless someone starts it.

If you've already taken the tests, send a compare to someone unlike you - someone who'd never pick the answers you would. If you haven't, take them first, then send one. You can look at an example before you do. Maya and Theo are made-up people built from real portrait types: a front-foot Lion and a careful Owl.

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It has been two weeks. We've been heads down, finishing things.

Last time I said there was more coming to what-world-way and that I'd say more when it was live. It's live. Each pillar now has a fuller test behind it for when a glimpse isn't enough, and a new "build your profile" page collects everything you've taken in one place. Alongside our own framework we also host familiar, established assessments — Big Five, character strengths, Jungian type, the Highly Sensitive Person scale — free, with your results.

New? Take what-world-way — three short tests, free portrait — share your result to help us.

For the past couple of months, since I started posting in early April, most of the thinking behind this project has gone onto LinkedIn, where a post does its work in a day and then scrolls out of reach. I've wanted somewhere it could actually sit.

So there's now a blog, at potentialisation.com/blog. Nothing dramatic — just a proper home for the essays, the half-formed ideas, and the reading that feeds the project. The plan is to write in the open: not polished conclusions handed down, but the actual thinking while it's still moving.

A month ago I told you launch was days away. Then you didn't hear from me for a month.

Here's what "days away" actually meant. The idea was finished. The thing was not. The gap between those two is where we have been working hard.

Most of it was invisible work. A guest-session bug that only showed up on an Android phone with two browser tabs open — the exact thing a real person does and a demo never does. Shrinking images until a share card loads before the person you sent it to gets bored and swipes away. Working out how to measure whether any of this lands without tracking anybody or setting a single cookie. None of it shows. All of it decides whether the thing works in someone else's hands instead of just mine.

Last night I sat up till 2am making Facebook share cards. First time I've been that excited about a piece of work in months.

The cards are for the new "what-world-way" result on the platform — three words that come out of three short assessments stitched together: an animal (your archetype drawn from enneagram types — are you the protector, the mediator, etc), a world (the world you most feel at home in), and your way (your style, how you approach the world). Three hundred and thirty-six combinations in total. Mine, for what it's worth, is Fox-Horizon-Deep — wired for individuality, patterns and reflection. The image below shows my share card as it will soon appear on Facebook.

Each of the 336 combinations has its own preview page on the site already, if you want to browse.

Building update from this end. The website now has two Glimpse tests live — the archetype Glimpse that some of you will have already tried, and a brand new "find your world" that went up this week.

We are building towards something big, coming soon.

Glimpses are meant to be the lightest thing Px offers — quick enough that anyone can take one, rich enough that the result lands. They're the doorway into the rest. Deeper assessments are coming, but starting light feels right.

The archetypes give you an animal — a quick read on how you move through the world.

Something is coming that I think changes how psychometric assessment works. I'm not ready to say more than that yet — but I need your help to get there.

We're previewing a new instrument on the platform. Right now it's simple and short — deliberately so. It will soon form the basis of something much bigger, but at this stage what I need most is people to try it.

You can try it here — no account needed: https://app.potentialisation.com/try/69d646f817bf600d405c8deb

The report at the end is deliberately simple for now — that's not the bit I need feedback on. What I want to know is: did the process flow? Was anything confusing? Did anything break? How did it feel to go through? Reply to this email with anything at all.

Hi everyone,


sorry if the LinkedIn links didn’t work for everyone. A new article and the other two are below. Likes and even shares if you can will make a HUGE difference as we start to get LinkedIn built up. Every one is VERY much appreciated.

I won’t email for every new post on there - just occasionally and with news of big features and stuff.

To make this easier I started using ButtonDown, a simple email list manager, so if you don’t want updates about Potentialisation updates you can unsubscribe below.

My first article:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jontwigge_i-wrote-about-why-stepping-out-from-the-group-activity-7447212938379169792-ebc7/

and the first two posts:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jontwigge_selfawareness-identity-pierpressure-activity-7446209939527589888-k5PQ

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jontwigge_selfawareness-pierpressure-awareness-activity-7445861716795543552-MVyn

Thanks you all so much for following us now for some time while we built things.


Jon