A pyramid is a powerful and easily understood metaphor for things building upon each other. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is the most popular of these metaphors:
Since then, perhaps because of the familiarity of Maslow, the pyramid has been used to explain other systems, like Stephen P Anderson’s
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Here are a couple of mine. This first one is classic Maslow, though I do raise the question of, “Do you really need the the most “evolved” team every time?” The pyramid seems to indicate that we always want to get to the top….

This one is an early design, and I’m mixing up a metaphors a bit, using both the three sided metaphor and the pyramid metaphor. Shudder.

This is just me goofing around on twitter.
