Tapas Innovation Lexicon
Word Play
Language is not neutral. The words we use shape what we can think, see, and build. This is something I have believed for as long as I can remember, and it is why this Lexicon exists.
Some of the words here are ones I have coined, arriving fully formed in the middle of a conversation or a podcast, already understood before they were even finished being spoken. Others are words that already exist but carry so much accumulated misuse, so many competing definitions, that when I use them I want you to know exactly what I mean. Ego. Toxic. Shadow. These words matter too much to leave to assumption.
And some entries are simply word play. The collision of two concepts into something that contains both. A third thing that neither word could be alone.
This is a living document. It will grow. If a word is missing that you believe belongs here, I am always listening.
All entries
Original coinages
A method of intentional collaborative thinking modeled on the labyrinth: moving inward toward the heart of a challenge, then expanding outward with what was found there.
The active and intentional pursuit of joy. Not feeling happiness, but generating it. Joy as a choice rather than a condition.
Describing a solar image or moment in which the direction of the sun's transition is visually indistinguishable. Neither clearly dawn nor dusk. Of equal solar appearance at opposing thresholds.
A person who exists outside the traditional personality spectrum entirely, not positioned somewhere within the introvert-extrovert continuum but adjacent to it. From Spanish otro, other.
A person who has moved through the work of self-integration to the point of energetic sovereignty, able to access and move fluidly through the full range of human social energies. The Ultravert does not sit at a fixed point on the spectrum. The Ultravert contains it.
Words that deserve more precision
Not vanity. Not arrogance. The ego as Jungian structure, the organized part of the personality that mediates between the inner world and the external one. Understanding this distinction changes how you work with it.
A word that has been stretched so far it has nearly lost its usefulness. What it actually means, and what it means specifically in organizational environments, is worth restoring.
Word play and concept collisions
The practical and the mystical are not opposites. They are partners. True pragmatism, the kind that actually works in complex human environments, always contains an element that cannot be fully explained.
This Lexicon grows as the language does. New entries are added as words earn their place. If something is missing that you believe belongs here, the conversation is always open.