The more I think about this, the more I think there should not really be a distinction between Differential Progress and progress studies in general. When we study anything, we should always be thinking about how we should take agency over it. Knowledge is supposed to be used to improve the world.
Or… would a good paraphrasing be “applied progress studies”?
My own sense is that, yeah the Success brings obligations section is most of it. To add to that: It takes about 10 times as long to realize a design or to propagate or empirically validate a theory, than it does to conceive it, and the one who conceived it is often best positioned to do that work.
Founders usually become maintainers.