We speak about impact as though it were self-evident: reach, growth, income, visibility, people served. But before anything can be measured, someone has to decide what counts as meaningful change, and that decision is rarely neutral.
Ten questions on identity, value, power, measurement and attribution.
Each answer opens the evidence behind it: the concept at stake, why it matters for how you read your own contribution, and where the finding comes from. Roughly fifteen minutes, and it is not a personality test.
Start the inquiry →The questions get harder. They begin with how a self is formed and end with whether the question "am I making an impact" can be answered at all. Answer honestly rather than strategically; the evidence is the point, not the score.
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The score is the least interesting output. The useful residue is the set of questions the evidence leaves behind: who defined the outcome, who was asked, what was counted, and what became invisible the moment a number was chosen.
Each one is a whole literature compressed into a paragraph. They are here so the quiz is legible without it, and so the terms can be looked up properly elsewhere.
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Three literatures carry this inquiry. Choose one to see what each source contributes and why it appears here.
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Summarised in my own words. The framings are standard in the literature rather than original to me; anyone using this for research should go to the sources themselves, and several of the debates remain open.
These questions run through the work itself.