Have You Done the Triple D?

Once you have, you will want to ask everyone you know the same question.

May 31, 2026

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Friends,

You made roughly thirty-five thousand decisions yesterday, and it felt like a lot of choosing. What to eat, what to open first, what to say, what to skip, when to stop.

You chose to open this email, and you can feel that you chose it. The decision just before it is more interesting. You probably reached for your phone before you were properly awake, opened the same app you always open, and let it decide what your first thoughts of the day were going to be. Nobody chose that. It happened to you, and it has happened every morning for years.

That is most of your life now. Defaults run on your behalf, habits you stopped noticing long ago set the tone, and notifications claim your attention before you get a say in it. On top of all that sits a thin layer of AI making the small calls so smoothly that you never feel the hand on the wheel. We have all got very good at mistaking momentum for agency. You are busy, so you assume you are deciding, and the two are not the same thing.

I spent the better part of two years on the gap between designing your choices and drifting through them. The seven human skills in my book all sit on top of that one question, so I built a partner to the book, a way to measure where you actually stand.

I have called it the Triple D. It stands for the Drift versus Design Diagnostic, though I am well aware that is not the first thing that comes to mind when someone asks whether you have done the Triple D. I thought about changing the name and decided I rather liked that you are going to remember it.

I shared it last month with a small group, and then those who had already pre-ordered the book and had registered. They came back with more questions than I expected, and one of them asked whether I would run a workshop on it, which is roughly when I understood this was worth sending to everyone.

You can take it here: superskillsbook.com/diagnostic

It is ninety-four questions across nine parts. The instruction is simple. Move quickly, answer instinctively, do not deliberate. Twelve minutes if you trust your first response, twenty if you like to ponder, or if English is not your first language. The thinking is supposed to happen afterwards, not during. The questions are designed to catch the version of you that arrives before you have had time to dress it up. That said, my wife said to allow 30 minutes.

Ninety-four is a lot to sit through, and that is deliberate, because you cannot game something that keeps asking you the same truth from nine different angles. Some of the questions are built to catch you flattering yourself, and they are rather good at it. I wrote them, and a few of them still caught me out. Do it in one sitting if you can, on your phone or your computer, because the honest answer is the one that counts.

You have probably done something like this before. I am not pretending this is Myers-Briggs or the psychometric instrument your company paid a few hundred pounds a head for. It is not trying to be. It is faster, it is free, and it is built to make you think for yourself rather than hand you a label to hide behind. I would argue it is the more urgent one right now because it measures what the world is slowly taking from you without asking.

At the end, you get a score out of a hundred and a band that places you somewhere between Deep Drift, where the defaults and other people’s priorities are writing your story, and Deep Design, where you are authoring your own path and helping others author theirs. You also get an archetype, with a strength and the precise shadow that comes with it. There are nine of them:

The Explorer, who asks brilliant questions but struggles to settle anywhere
The Anchor, who holds steady while everything moves but forgets to ask whether the ground is still worth standing on
The Architect, who sees the whole system but can lose the detail in front of them
The Connector, who understands what everyone feels and ends up carrying too much of it
The Bridge, who adapts to any room and risks belonging to none
The Guardian, who knows exactly where the line is and can mistake rigidity for principle
The Amplifier, who uses every tool well but can forget to ask what is worth amplifying
The Conductor, who orchestrates everyone else and sometimes forgets to play
The Weaver, who nurtures every relationship but rarely lets anyone nurture them back

You will find out which one you are in the same way you once found out you were an extrovert or a completer-finisher, except this time it comes with the one blind spot you would never have named yourself and a plan for what to do about it.

A word on your score before you see it. It is not a comparison, and there is no good or bad to it. Coming out lower in one area than another is simply where there is room to build over the coming years, assuming you believe these skills matter in the era we are now in. Two people on identical scores can be shaped completely differently. Your score is the start of your own journey, not the result of someone else’s.

A second word, on the thing most people get wrong with diagnostics like this. They mean to do it, they bookmark it, and they never get back to it. The version of you that opens an email and the version of you that comes back to it tomorrow are not the same person. So do it now, while it is in front of you, with the cup of tea you already have in your hand. And when you reach your score, take a screen grab of it before you do anything else. It is a record of where you started, and you will want it when you come back in a few months to see what has moved.

Almost nobody who finishes wants to keep their score to themselves. You will read your blind spot, recognise someone you know in your archetype, and immediately want to know what they came out as. That conversation is worth more than the score. So drop it into a WhatsApp group or a team channel with three words, have you done this, and watch what happens when the first person asks what on earth the Triple D is. Share your own score first, because the people you send it to are far more likely to share theirs back. Where you are on the journey is worth being bold about. The people you give a damn about are worth sending it to. You’ll also find the answer to this question: Do you love your significant other?

If the Triple D does its job, the book is where the work begins. The diagnostic shows you where you are standing. The book is how you move the number.

Stay Curious - and don’t forget to be amazing,

Rahim

Rahim Hirji Author, SuperSkills (Kogan Page, July 2026) | Keynote Speaker | Advisor
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