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Scott David
Human Cover: Lead Organizational Psychologist and President of iDENTITY iNTELLIGENCE®; COO at Upper Echelon Electrical LLC
Species / Archetype: Peregrine Architect.
Obsessions: High-velocity dialogue, systems architecture, books, computers, neurophysiological models, interior design, edge cases, ‘borderline’ states, and the structural weirdness hiding inside human behavior.
Native Strengths: Organization, methodicalness, systems thinking, systems design, coherence detection, human service, and translating between Newtonian and Einsteinian realities.
Derailers: Not eating. Not sleeping. Not stopping. Forgetting the body exists until it files a formal complaint. And… ‘Borderline’ states.
Newtonian Misread: “This guy has it all together; there’s nothing he needs.”
Approach Protocol: Interject, Interrupt, Talk a Lot, Talk Fast.
Paul Merton
Human Cover: Founder of Ethos Wine Group; Principal Strategic Advisor at iDENTITY iNTELLIGENCE®
Species / Archetype: Fox in the University (will change in the future if Paul can commit to a final decision)
Obsessions: Global travel & public speaking, ultra-complex problem solving, otherworldly pattern mapping, walking 10,000+ steps per day, foreign realities, elegant systems, and glow-stick dancing.
Native Strengths: Ridiculous strategic pattern mapping, remote-system comprehension, conceptual altitude, problem solving across invisible variables, and seeing the shape of things before language has caught up.
Derailers: Getting started. Finishing. Returning from the conceptual stratosphere with something Newtonians can actually hold.
Newtonian Misread: “What language is that; is he speaking in English right now?”
Approach Protocol: Build metaphorical and analogical scaffolds so his conceptualizations can keep traveling upward and outward (without losing the room entirely).
Rose S.
Human Cover: Former switchboard operator, book bindery co-owner/operator, and physical therapy office professional; lifelong practitioner of making everyone around her feel safe.
Species / Archetype: Swan of the Storm Porch
Obsessions: Family, honesty, kindness, understanding, making difficult things feel manageable, fast cars, gathering people together, finding joy in terrible weather, and quietly ensuring everyone else is okay.
Native Strengths: Radical emotional safety, incorruptible integrity, fearlessness with people, graciousness under pressure, deep empathy, resilience, self-sacrifice, steadiness, and the rare ability to carry enormous difficulty without allowing it to become the emotional weather of the room.
Derailers: Concealing pain. Protecting everyone else from burdens they would gladly help carry. Making extraordinary endurance look so effortless that people forget endurance is occurring.
Newtonian Misread: “She’s just sweet.”
Approach Protocol: Tell the truth. Gentleness is safe here. Do not confuse softness with fragility. Accept the kindness. Return some of the shelter. And when the weather turns terrible, go sit on the porch.
Chris Lindquist
Human Cover: President and Founder of Upper Echelon Electrical LLC; Chief Global Impact Officer at iDENTITY iNTELLIGENCE®
Species / Archetype: Octopus Cartographer.
Obsessions: Faith, family, fun, business, teaching, impact, possibility, and all eight arms of the unfolding situation.
Native Strengths: Multitasking, verbal energy, positivity, service, relational warmth, practical action, and seeing several realities at once.
Derailers: Squirrel syndrome. Pattern overreach. Building the future slightly before the data has agreed to cooperate.
Newtonian Misread: “This guy’s a bag of air.”
Approach Protocol: “Smile and wave boys… smile and wave.” — Navy SEAL Penguins from Madagascar
Samantha Dziewa
Human Cover: Psychology major; fashion, modeling, makeup, interior design, art, neurophysiology, and whatever conceptual rabbit hole happens to be open at the moment.
Species / Archetype: Ermine Couturière
Obsessions: Psychology, neurophysiology, theology, philosophy, astrophysics, quantum mechanics, clothing, makeup, modeling, interiors, art, aesthetics, and conversations long enough to require a change of calendar date.
Native Strengths: Extraordinary verbal fluency, extreme stimulus bandwidth, rapid conceptual switching, aesthetic intelligence, emotional and psychological pattern recognition, high-speed abstraction, and the ability to remain fully conversational while approximately 17 realities are occurring at once.
Derailers: Entropy. Environmental accumulation. More open cognitive tabs than most operating systems were designed to support. Stimulus levels that exhaust everyone else long before she has noticed there was stimulus.
Newtonian Misread: “She’s a lot.”
Approach Protocol: Bring bandwidth. Talk fast. Do not unnecessarily simplify. Let the conversation branch. Introduce art, beauty, consciousness, God, brains, stars, clothing, or quantum mechanics and allow several of them to remain active simultaneously.
Jim Lange
Human Cover: President and Founder of JIMLANGE.net and 5FEET20. Executive Mastermind Roundtable architect; author, leadership advisor, men’s advocate, and practical biblical counselor for those navigating chaos, leadership wounds, and distorted family systems.
Species / Archetype: Bison Statesman
Obsessions: Executive brotherhood, wise counsel, biblical truth, men reclaiming their spine, practical leadership, moral courage, family-system jailbreaks, nonconformity, tactical next steps, and the exact right verse arriving at the exact right moment.
Native Strengths: Stability, reliability, responsibility, tactical wisdom, masculine steadiness, statesmanship, high-trust group architecture, quiet discernment, practical prophecy, and the rare ability to hold rooms full of powerful men without performing for them.
Derailers: Under-speaking what he already knows. Assuming the obvious wisdom has already landed. Letting louder minds orbit the room while he waits patiently with the actual answer.
Newtonian Misread: “He’s just a steady, nice Christian businessman.”
Approach Protocol: Talk freely. Think out loud. Let the room run fast, wide, and strange. Then stop when the Bison finally lowers his head, quotes an obscure verse from memory, and gives the one tactical word everyone actually needed.
Manda D'Agostino
Human Cover: Master of Science in Psychology and Behavioral Health; Mother; Professional Finder-of-the-Pattern-Underneath-the-Pattern.
Species / Archetype: Phoenix Cartographer
Obsessions: Human behavior, psychology, astrology, spirituality, symbolism, pattern recognition, hidden connections, meaning-making, the why beneath the why, signs and synchronicities, mapping emotional and relational dynamics, imagining future possibilities, creating worlds and frameworks, deep conversations that accidentally become existential investigations, and turning an existential crisis into a color-coded system before lunch.
Native Strengths: Character development. Pattern recognition. Emotional depth. Reading between approximately 17 lines at once. Advocacy. Adaptive intelligence. Finding language for experiences that initially exist only as “THIS FEELS WRONG.” Making connections between body, emotion, environment, relationships, history, and present needs. Seeing the system without losing sight of the human inside it. Meaning-making. Holding contradictions without needing to prematurely resolve them. Translating complexity into something understandable and usable. Possibility detection. Resourcefulness. Creative problem-solving. Dark humor at wildly inappropriate times. A pattern-weaver and meaning-maker who sees the terrain beneath the terrain—patterns, people, possibilities, contradictions, connections, and undercurrents others may overlook. She maps complexity into coherence, transforming what she discovers into understanding, direction, possibility, and choice.
Derailers: Doing too much. Giving too much. Staying too long. Trying to solve what actually needs to be rested through. Forgetting that capacity is finite until the body submits its complaint in ALL CAPS. Over-functioning for people who are perfectly capable of under-functioning for themselves. Adapting so well to unacceptable circumstances that she temporarily forgets adaptation was never supposed to become permanent residence. Trying to purchase freedom when what she actually needs is space. Searching for meaning when sometimes something simply sucks and is allowed to suck. Turning reflection into another task to accomplish. Mapping possible roads when she really just needs to pick the next step. Mistaking “I understand why they behave this way” for “therefore I need to tolerate it. Mistaking “I can technically survive this” for “therefore I should continue tolerating this.”
Newtonian Misread: “She handles everything. She’s strong. She’ll figure it out. She always does.”
Approach Protocol: Don’t tell her what she should feel. Don’t confuse support with managing her reactions. Get curious about her map before assuming you understand the terrain. Bring substance. Bring curiosity. Bring reciprocity. Ask rather than assume. Challenge her thoughtfully, not dismissively. Don’t mistake her ability to understand your perspective for an obligation to accept its consequences. Respect the boundary the first time. Don’t require a dissertation before honoring a need. If she says she’s at capacity, believe her before her body has to provide supporting documentation. And remember: she does not need someone to navigate for her. She values people willing to walk beside her while she navigates for herself.
Ashish
Human Cover: Founder of Brain Strata; A.I. entrepreneur and systems architect; former investment banking and finance professional; author of the forthcoming Decoding Humans as We Enter the Age of A.I.
Species / Archetype: Basilisk of Coherence
Obsessions: Artificial intelligence, human learning, systems architecture, venture building, education, finance, global talent, exponential scale, the collision between human cognition and machine intelligence, and identifying which parts of yesterday’s reality have quietly stopped being true.
Native Strengths: Systems architecture, directness, first-principles thinking, tactical pattern execution, global reality navigation, capital and business-model fluency, spotting inflection points early, assembling unconventional talent, and converting emerging technology into operating systems that can actually scale.
Derailers: Impatience with obsolete models. Occasionally proceeding as though everyone else has already updated to the version of reality he is currently inhabiting. Expectations that can move from zero to billion-dollar scale before others understand the whiteboard.
Newtonian Misread: “He’s simultaneously Stuck in a Rut / Moving Too Fast… how does that even make sense?”
Approach Protocol: Bring data, architecture, first principles, and a willingness to abandon assumptions that can’t survive reality testing. Be direct. Don’t confuse credentials with truth. If discussing the future, arrive prepared to discuss what happens at 10x, 100x, and 1000x — not merely what worked yesterday.
Jeremy W.
Human Cover: Residential Contractor; Owner / Operator
Species / Archetype: Marten Groundskeeper
Obsessions: Immaculate workmanship, electrical systems, carpentry, plumbing, mechanical problem solving, structural repair, renovations, home security, landscaping, perfectly striped lawns, sculptural trees, quiet outdoor spaces, children and grandchildren, relationship intensity, and discovering what is hiding underneath the thing that was supposedly “just a small repair.”
Native Strengths: Practical intelligence, spatial reasoning, mechanical intuition, persistence, improvisation, calm problem solving, reading people, working with his hands, making functional things beautiful, seeing what needs to be done without being told, and remaining genuinely teachable even when he already knows how to solve most of the problem.
Derailers: Perfectionism. Taking on too much. Difficulty sitting still. Relationship chaos. Obsessing over details. Opening up a wall for one basic repair, discovering three generations of questionable decisions behind it, and becoming psychologically incapable of closing the wall again until every layer is right—or better than it was ever supposed to be.
Newtonian Misread: “Nothing bothers him.”
Approach Protocol: Give him a real project. Let him lead it. Keep your word. If something underneath the surface is wrong, assume he’s already seen it—and that there is absolutely no chance he is leaving it that way.