gridmaker-interview

Gridmaker Interview

Single-process dialogue skill. One operator per session, no subagents. Produces one self-lens spec.

A self-lens is a named-real-person lens (see creating-lenses Phase 1, branch (a)) where the named person is the operator running the skill. The same six-section lens spec, the same grounding-contract discipline, the same ventriloquism guard — with the as-if clause sharpened: reads as if {operator}-at-time-T were reading, given the material this interview surfaces; it is not {operator}-now, and {operator}-now is the seer choosing to look through it.

The fifteen-question protocol draws on several research traditions, each shaping one aspect of the interview:

• Christensen, Hall, Dillon & Duncan (Competing Against Luck, HarperBusiness, 2016) — the jobs-to-be-done framework, which asks what is the operator hiring this tool to do for them? Shapes the opening question about the trigger moment.
• Rogers (Client-Centered Therapy, Houghton Mifflin, 1951) — non-directive warmth: reflect what you heard before pushing for more. Shapes the overall register.
• The Adult Attachment Interview's adjective-and-memory technique (George, Kaplan & Main, 1985/1996) — ask for an adjective, then ask for a specific memory behind it; the gap between the two is the signal. Shapes Q8. Borrowed as a self-elicitation aid, not as the AAI's clinical instrument: the AAI is an attachment-classification protocol requiring trained coders, a full transcript, and the Main-Goldwyn / Hesse coding manual, none of which apply here.
• McAdams (The Life Story Interview, Northwestern, 2007) — high-point and low-point scenes; the pattern in how the operator tells the low point (it became useful, or it still costs) matters more than the story. Shapes Qs 9 and 10.
• Aron et al. (Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 23(4), 1997) — a conversation gradient where questions get steadily more personal, then ease back. Shapes the running order: present circumstance first, deeper material in the middle, lighter close.
• Kegan (In Over Our Heads, Harvard, 1994) — the developmental move of taking assumptions you stand inside and holding them up to look at. Shapes the optional reserve question and Q14's values prompt.
• Heath & Heath (Switch, 2010) and adjacent identity-shift literature — the framing underneath the closing question's second half ("…and whether that's who you want to be becoming"). Cite as allusion, do not lift phrasing.