Wittgenstein asked us to imagine that everyone has a box with something in it called a ‘beetle’. Nobody can look in anyone else’s. The word still works perfectly well in conversation, even if every beetle is different, or a box is empty.
Pick a word your team uses. Then open everyone’s box.
Teams agree on words long before they agree on what’s in the box. Nobody notices until a hard decision forces the lids open.
Ask yourself. Which word does your team use every week without ever opening each other’s boxes?
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That’s the whole collection examined, every room. Now imagine doing this with your own life, for a year, with two people who come to know it well. That’s membership.