Internal and external connections
This book is where I got to after decades of watching and testing. I was brought up primed to see the worst of us. Set aside expectations, approach the problem with acceptance of the actual behaviors and context, and they simply are not the most of us. But, and here’s the key: those who truly are dark triad, and not just replicating their behavior because they’ve witnessed it too much, will not change. The only successful way of dealing with them is to not allow them access to you — not physically, not in your career, for all that's good avoid them in positions of power, and definitely not in social media.
And, to be clear, this is after decades of information ingesting, watching, and testing. Decades of information ingestion, with so many reference points that had concepts that stayed with me, but which I can't for the life of me trace now (there's one book I've been trying to trace on and off for over 15 years, literally hundreds of hours trying to find the specific title again). I never thought that I would write this, until I started. I never thought it would be for anyone but my niece-in-twenty-years, until it shifted. Any attribution that isn't clear is sincerely regretted.
Because of this, the internal network of the book, and our emerging understanding, I actually made connections along three lines.
The first/gray box is for disciplines that I know my understanding turned to as I wrestled with concepts. These are the most likely areas to track for emergence and shifting understanding. If there is no gray box, it means it was pulling from understanding of this book's concept as a whole.
The second/yellow box in the internal network of the book. The book is a system, with all the quirks of system. If one node of understanding shifts, it could shift anything it's connected to...and which that concept is connected to, and on down the line depending on the nature of the shift. Note that there is a significant probability that I'll open this book to the public before all the keywords in the yellow box are linked, but it is on my to-do list. Eventually, support pages listing the connections by source (rally point) and end (facet)will also be in the appendix, and I'll make a network graph of them. If there's no yellow box, chances are that it's a key rally point.
The third/blue box is for standard attributions. They are what will take the longest to track down, so I'll be approaching them in multiple passes. Consider it part of getting access to it early and free. ;) As I tracked them down, what I found happening was that the sources that made a huge impression on me were mostly easy to relocate (with a few exceptions). Often, while I was finding those, I would stumble across a more recent publication that condensed some of my own understanding. There's also more Wikipedia than I used to springboard my own learning, because it consolidates understanding from many threads. The intent is to springboard learning, not to argue my way to being the final correct summary; it can't be, we're not (to the best of my understanding) nearing the end of the universe. Don't trust me. Use my thinking as a springboard.
The fourth/green box is for where I had to talk a little more, but it disrupted the flow of the ideas. Some of them I hope to remove in time.